How the National Guard practiced dispersing protests on ninth-graders. ⠀ Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardiya) decided to hold drills. ⠀ The drills had to be realistic, so the “enemies” in them also had to be dangerous. Preferably the kind whose unrest would have to be suppressed in real life too. ⠀ And who are the main enemies of Putin, Rosgvardiya, and the valiant Army General Zolotov with his striped trousers and cockade? ⠀ That’s right: college and school students who resist brainwashing and refuse to believe that there is no poverty in Russia and that corruption is being fought. ⠀ They don’t watch television, which means they are undermining the country’s national security. ⠀ That is apparently exactly how representatives of the Interior Ministry and Rosgvardiya in Tatarstan reasoned. ⠀ They gathered ninth-graders in a schoolyard and conducted drills on how to act during mass youth unrest. ⠀ Students from Novotroitskaya School in Tukaevsky District, Tatarstan, “attacked” Rosgvardiya officers armed with shields, who in turn wrestled them to the ground and fought back against these ninth-grade “militants.” ⠀ Personally, this seems, to put it mildly, abnormal. Neither from the standpoint of what a school should be doing, nor from the standpoint of what the “security” agencies should be doing (which, let me remind you, consume a third of Russia’s state budget). ⠀ What do you think about this? Please write in the comments. ⠀ (The video was sent to me by the head of the Tatarstan branch of the Teachers’ Alliance trade union, @valiullinrf.)