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Participants of the "SVO" began to receive public speaking lessons in Arkhangelsk for work with children.

В Arkhangelsk They are conducting lectures on public speaking for the participants of the "SVO." The goal is to teach them to "communicate freely and without fear with an audience." They will be conducting lessons for schoolchildren as mentors to promote spiritual and moral values, writes The Barents Observer.

Public speaking for SVO participants

Local TV covered the story. The Deputy Minister of Education of the Arkhangelsk Region came to greet the course participants. Igor Kostromitinov, calling the organization of the lectures a “wonderful” event.

Currently, 15 people are training to become lecturers, but interest from SVO participants is growing, the report says.

Who is undergoing training?

According to leaked databases, several of the course participants featured in the report may have criminal records. One of them has the same full name as... Paul S., journalists note, was convicted at least three times, including for theft and robbery with violence. He is the exact namesake of another man— Pavel P. — may be a malicious defaulter on child support payments. Furthermore, someone with the same background has accumulated a large amount of debt—hundreds of thousands of rubles. Perhaps that's why they went to the "SVO."

Course participant Dmitry Nechaev He said in a TV report that he had previously conducted “small classes” with children, but now he was going to do it in “large spaces where there were more people.”

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