"We've decided to introduce a new scholarship. It will be awarded to young people under 18 who are actively involved in military-patriotic activities. We already have scholarships that reward schoolchildren for achievements in education, culture, and sports, so we're correcting the injustice faced by activists who have demonstrated their patriotic spirit."- wrote The city mayor posted on his Telegram channel Yuri Shalabaev... On this noticed The Moscow Times.

The stipend will be 60,000 rubles per year. Ten people will receive the stipend: "participants in the All-Russian patriotic events and the May 9 Victory Day parade, students of the municipal military-patriotic education center and the "I Want to Become a Paratrooper" camp, winners and runners-up of the "Zarnitsa" parade, members of the "Youth Army," and others."

600 rubles for scholarships isn't that much. Other regions spend much more on fostering patriotism. For example, in Chelyabinsk Region equipment for a military history and military-patriotic education classroom it worked out The facility will be equipped with flight simulators, truck and armored personnel carrier simulators, a "Navigation Bridge," a "Tank Duel" training complex, and a multimedia interactive small arms and close combat simulator.

And for the patriotic education of children in Sverdlovsk region will purchase camouflage uniforms and quadcopters worth 33 million rubles.

Spending on patriotic education in Russia as a whole is growing, and quite significantly. In 2022, for example, they amounted to 11,4 billion rubles instead of the originally planned 5 billion, they reported "News". And from 2023 Putin ordered to transfer annually More than 21 billion rubles to the All-Russian Public-State Movement of Children and Youth alone—“for the education of patriotism and the development of the personality of the younger generation.”

Photo: Yuri Shalabaev's Telegram channel