The independent Russian investigative website Meduza drew a parallel between information about the president, democracy and civil rights in the children’s section of the Kremlin website and the latest news.

The children’s section on the Kremlin website appeared in 2004 and is supported by the texts of Grigory Oster and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which have repeatedly attracted the attention of journalists, as in this case, when the investigation of the independent Russian website Meduza tried to mirror it. official information with news reported by independent media.

About the president

The children’s section of the Kremlin website: “The president is the head of state. This is the most important person in our country. The president has the power. But the president is not a ruler, he is not an emperor, he is not a master and ruler. We should not kneel before our president and swear allegiance to him. On the contrary, we, the citizens, are not in the service of the president, but the president swore to us, the Russians. . people. Being president is a job.”

Against the news about the President of Russia

At the funeral of Daria Dugina, LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky declared: “One country! One president! And one victory,” which prompted some social media users to recall the Nazi slogan: “One Nation, One Country, One Führer” (Ein Volk, ein). Reich, ein Führer). And a few years ago, the President of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin, proclaimed: “Without Putin, there will be no Russia.”

About rallies and protests

The children’s section of the Kremlin website: “You can arrange a demonstration, that is, show everyone how you want to bathe in the river. During the demonstration, you can carry placards and shout the slogans “We want to swim!”, “Our happiness is in the river,” “Long live diving and snorkeling.” You can also debate or argue with those who prefer mushroom picking and convince them that swimming in the river is much more fun than picking mushrooms.

Compared to news about recent protests in Russia

After the arrest of Yekaterinburg’s former mayor, Yevgeny Roizman, several dozen people gathered on the 1905 square for a “silent action” in support of the politician.

People simply sat down on the steps of the Lenin monument – but the police still dispersed them.

About the opposition

The children’s section of the Kremlin website: “Actually, in a healthy democracy, those who disagree with the policies of the government not only do not interfere with the functioning of the government, but, on the contrary, help it. Because in a democratic state, the government is organized in such a way that even its opponents benefit the government.”

Against news about the opposition

Shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the “fifth column” those who talk about the losses caused by the war and the socio-economic problems it caused. According to Putin, the Russian people “will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scoundrels and traitors and will simply spit them out like a mosquito that accidentally got into his mouth.”

In total, since the beginning of the war, 90 people have been prosecuted for “false information” about the army, and almost four thousand administrative cases have been filed for “discrediting” it.

About government interference in the lives of citizens

The children’s section of the Kremlin website: “Neither the president nor the state has the right to interfere in the private lives of adults and their children, telling them what clothes to wear, what music to listen to, and what books to read.”

Against news about state interference in the lives of citizens

The State Duma is preparing to adopt one of the draft laws, which provides for the prohibition of “propaganda of homosexuality” not only among children, but also among adults.

Roskomnadzor has already proposed to ban the sale of LGBT+ “propaganda” books, although it did not find any violations in the sale of the book “Summer in a Pioneer Tie”, which was criticized by Zakhar Prilepin and Nikita Mikhalkov

About the entourage of the president

The children’s section of the Kremlin website: “If someone becomes a brave hero or learns how to grow strawberries the size of a watermelon, he can definitely become the favorite of the entire country, the entire people.

But the president should not create the impression that he likes one citizen more than another. The duty of the president is to ensure equal rights of all citizens in all spheres.”

Against news about the president’s entourage

Meduza and a global network of investigative journalists have discovered that numerous websites that at various times have linked to Vladimir Putin or people in his inner circle share a common IT infrastructure.

In recent months, it also became known that Dmitry Medvedev’s son, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Ilya Medvedev, purchased land, and Putin’s ex-wife Lyudmila owns real estate in the center of Moscow, which annually brings her millions of dollars.

About love for the president

The children’s section of the Kremlin website: “What to do with a citizen who loves his president too much, who cannot live without him, who hangs presidential portraits on all four walls and who remembers everything he said to the president yesterday on TV? in the end let him calm down. And you understand that the president does not need declarations of love from citizens. The president needs only one thing: that citizens do not violate each other’s rights. And he should not love the president, but we should love our country.”

Against the news about love for the president

The leader of the DDT formation Yuriy Shevchuk was fined 50,000 rubles for “discrediting” the army because he declared that “the Motherland is not the president’s ass.”

According to the court, during the May concert, the musician “called on the audience to assess the events taking place in Ukraine and encouraged them to doubt the purpose of conducting a special military operation by the armed forces of the Russian Federation.”

The cherry on the cake is the children’s section of the Kremlin website

In the Kremlin, children are still taught that it is illegal to elect the same person as president three times in a row.

“Even if all the citizens are completely delighted with their president, he is elected illegally three times in a row,” says the section for children on the Kremlin’s website, reports Meduza.

This passage was particularly cited by social media users in the spring of 2020, when a constitutional amendment allowed Vladimir Putin to run for election and re-election in 2024 and 2030.

Independent journalists Meduza asked if the Kremlin is going to correct the information so as not to mislead children, Dmytro Peskov said that this is a “completely different situation” that “cannot be a reason to correct such important messages in the children’s section.” .

As a result, this phrase – with the statement that “the president is forbidden to cheat and violate the Constitution” – still remains on the website.