Educating Ukrainian schoolchildren in annexed Crimea: Methodist teacher from the peninsula is suspected

Under the procedural supervision of the Crimean prosecutor's office, a Ukrainian citizen who implements Russian education standards in schools on the peninsula was served a notice of suspicion of collaboration. She faces up to 3 years in prison with deprivation of the right to engage in certain activities for up to 15 years.

This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

Law enforcement officers found that in 2015, the suspect took the position of "Head of the Center for Philological Education" at the occupation "Crimean Republican Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education".

During 2022-2023, she directly conducted and participated in seminars for teachers on the "prerequisites" for the implementation of Russian standards in secondary schools on the peninsula. And in February-March 2024, she took part in a series of seminars ofthe Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements on "harmonizing approaches to assessing the answers of participants in the unified state exam and the main state exam."

In addition, the suspect developed "Methodological recommendations on the peculiarities of teaching foreign languages in general education institutions of the Republic of Crimea" in the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 academic years, which established the methodology for teaching these subjects in accordance with Russian legislation.

Such actions of the suspect are aimed at excluding Ukrainian standards and educational programs from the process of teaching Crimean schoolchildren.

Earlier, the occupation authorities added questions about the war between Russia and Ukraine and the temporarily occupied territories to the demonstration version of the Russian Unified State History Exam (known in Russian as the USE) for 2025, which is analogous to the Ukrainian EIT.

Prior to that, the "deputies" of the so-called "regional duma" of Kherson region presented a draft law "On Spiritual, Moral and Patriotic Education in Kherson Region." The initiators of this bill were "deputies of the Kherson Regional Duma" from United Russia. According to the Kremlin's proxies in the occupied territories of Kherson region, "in the era of global confrontation with the West, the struggle is for the minds and hearts of people. Therefore, through patriotic education and strengthening traditional spiritual and moral values, they plan to unite Russian society and strengthen national identity. That is, to destroy the Ukrainian identity.

In addition, the Russians forced children from Kherson region to tear up the graves of victims of Nazi mass shootings in 1941-1943 near Henichesk. The invaders called this involvement of schoolchildren in the exhumation of human remains"patriotic education." In addition to children, heavy machinery was also involved in the "search work," which could simply destroy the burial site.