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Articles with tag "Children"

Moscow Rehab Center Employee Arrested After Claims of Abusing Teenagers

Investigators said the facility had been operating illegally since August and that children “were subjected to beatings and torture.”

Satellite Images Locate Ukrainian Kids Abducted by Russia – Lab

The HRL has uncovered the existence of 210 re-education and military camps across Russia where some of the children are being held.
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Balalaika Instructor Arrested in Yekaterinburg for Allegedly Trying to Suffocate Children

Artyom Vaganov reportedly invited children aged 10 to 15 to his apartment and offered them money to let him place plastic bags over their heads.
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Russia Tightens Legal Penalties for Terror and Sabotage Acts Among Minors

One of the new measures lowers the age at which minors can be charged with sabotage or terrorism to 14 from 16.
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Covert Curricula

Education is increasingly subject to political interference. How have teachers, parents and students responded? Is there room for quiet subversion?
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Over 150 Russian Teenagers Convicted of Terrorism or Sabotage Since Ukraine Invasion – Report

Many of the cases involve arson attacks on military enlistment offices and railway relay cabinets.
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News Analysis

A Teenage Boy’s Jailing Unites Chechens and Tests Kadyrov’s Influence

To people from the Caucasus, Muslim Murdiev’s arrest offered validation to their experiences of facing systemic discrimination in their own country.
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Melania Trump Says Has 'Open Channel' With Putin on Ukrainian Kids

Eight children had been reunited with their families in the past 24 hours following negotiations between her team and Putin's, the first lady said.
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Russian Children Form Human ‘89’ to Mark Anniversary of Unrecognized Annexation of Ukraine

The number “89” references Russia’s tally of its federal subjects after annexing the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. 
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Their Fathers Fighting in Ukraine, Some of Russia’s Military Children Fall Into a Broken Orphanage System

Local officials describe families left in poverty, children shuffled between relatives and institutions and widows navigating a complex bureaucracy.
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Russian Students Start School Year Marked by Surveillance, War Veterans and Anti-Migrant Measures

Students going back to school will find their classrooms transformed once again by the war in Ukraine.
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In Photos: Russian Students Begin New School Year Marked by Big Changes in Education Policy

Students across Russia mark Sept. 1, the traditional first day of the new school year, with flowers and festivities.
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Russia Returns 3 Ukrainian Children With Qatari Mediation

The Kremlin’s children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova said that a young man with a disability was also repatriated.
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‘Digital Child Trafficking’: Luhansk Officials Launch Child Adoption Database

Experts said the database could indicate that the occupying administration is running a forced adoption program independently of Moscow.
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In Russia, Soldiers’ Wives Are Urged to Give Birth to Children Who Might Never Meet Their Fathers

Initiatives across Russia are encouraging wives of soldiers to carry their pregnancies to term, even as the fathers might not return from the front.
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Russia Plans $65M Patriotic Youth Center in Siberia

The facility will serve as a flagship site for the Movement of the First, a Kremlin-backed youth organization created after the full-scale invasion of...
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opinion Tatyana Rybakova

Here's Why Russia's Birth Rate Plan Won't Work

Paying teenagers to give birth and restricting access to family planning will only mean families will be locked in situations that discourage childrearing...
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Children of Russian Soldiers Increasingly Placed in State Care, Regional Officials Say

Children’s rights officials across the Far East and Siberia warned of a “rise in indicators of family dysfunction” among families of those serving...
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Mariupol Children Undergo Pro-Russian Indoctrination at St. Petersburg ‘Wellness Camps’

Billed as health and wellness retreats, the camps teach children to develop respect and love for the country that occupies their home city.
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‘Plush Troops’: The Pro-War Children’s Toys Taking Over Russia’s Online Marketplaces

Experts say these pro-war toys give children positive reinforcement of the media and propaganda messaging that they encounter daily.
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