In August, Putin introduced mandatory security and defence classes in all schools.
Modules also include basic military training, how to use a Kalashnikov assault rifle and hand grenades.
A Just Russia party chief Sergey Mironov said in 2022 that the reintroduction of the preparatory military courses would “systematically prepare citizens for a possible confrontation with the enemy.”
Similar courses regularly ran across the Soviet Union up until the curriculum was changed following its collapse.
