Russia Wants to Keep a Stricter Eye on Its Anti-Putin Youth

  • New law would let government monitor out-of-school activities
  • Changes form part of measures to promote patriotic education
Members of the Russian national guard stand during a rally against the exclusion of opposition candidates from local polls in Moscow in 2019.Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

The Kremlin is seeking to counter what it sees as foreign influence on Russia’s increasingly rebellious youth with a new law aimed at tightening state control over out-of-school activities.

The upper house of parliament approved legal amendments that will compel providers of “educational activities” outside of traditional academic programs to coordinate with the government, the state-run Tass news service reported Wednesday.