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A rash of stabbings, shootings and other violent incidents involving students in Russian schools has spread across the country in recent weeks.

By Anna Snegireva | March 27, 2026

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/27/a-lot-of-war-in-society-viol
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Militarization, war propaganda and normalization of violence

Psychologists say that the surge in school violence is linked to the broader normalization of force in Russian society amid the war in Ukraine.

“Militaristic discourse is becoming more and more popular, more and more imposed,” Lapshin said.

He noted that war is framed not only as heroic but also as a legitimate way to resolve conflicts.

“Authoritative adults talk about it and invite children to play it as if it were an interesting game. War is presented as something just — we are defending our values and honor. At the same time, there is this underlying message: people solve their problems by going to war,” he said.

Alexandra Ivanova, a clinical psychologist working with adolescents, said exposure to narratives like this, combined with what she described as a perceived lack of accountability for violence, can distort how teenagers process conflict.

Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian media have reported cases of men returning from the front, committing violent crimes and avoiding prison by re-enlisting.

Military servicemen, including Wagner mercenaries, have also regularly visited school classrooms to speak to students since the start of the war.

“When violence is normalized in society — and it is being normalized now — plus the absence of punishment, which they also see and hear about, these people who come back from the war and what they are allowed to do without consequences — then teenagers don’t have an adequate picture of reality,” she said.

While a Wagner mercenary might not necessarily become a role model to students in a direct sense, his visit amid the wider school militarization signals to students that this is normal, she said.

Pavel Talankin, a former school videographer in the Chelyabinsk region, said he witnessed a major shift toward military and patriotic-themed lessons at his school soon after the invasion in 2022.

“We started receiving prepared lesson plans, presentations and video materials. There was a lot about the war,” he told The Moscow Times.

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He said his school was instructed to broadcast slides and hold mandatory patriotic classes. While formally labeled “additional education,” refusal was often not an option in practice.

He also noted the growing presence of weapons in schools during visits by military personnel.

“Military personnel come in, show grenades, show real weapons and teach [students] how to use them,” Talankin said. “They show them where to put the bullets, how to disassemble and assemble the rifle, how to clean it, and explain which weapons are more effective and which are less effective.”

“There is a lot of war in society,” Lapshin said. “And if there is a lot of it in society, there will be a lot of it in people’s heads.”

Talankin argued that the impact is less about direct imitation and more about desensitization.

“When children are given very aggressive information in a very aggressive form, that human life is worth nothing, children become angry,” he said.

Officials also appear to have anticipated the rise in school violence, Talankin said. After leaving Russia in 2024, he remained subscribed to his school’s mailing list. That September, he received new guidelines “on how to identify violent and terrorist tendencies in children.”

More at https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/27/a-lot-of-war-in-society-viol
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Weekend Update #178: Two Weeks Into The Russian Spring Offensive And The Ukrainians Have Gained Territory

Phillips P. OBrien
Mar 29, 2026

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-178-two-weeks-in
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Starting around March 17, there was a massive spike in Russian ground attacks in Ukraine. According to General Syrskyi, in four days near the start of the offensive, the Russians launched more than 600 different assaults across the front.

When the Russians attacked this year, they ran into very well-prepared Ukrainian defenses. There were minefields, fortifications, and a growing and increasingly effective Ukrainian defensive drone wall.

Many factors seem to be interacting in the stopping of the Russian offensive. One thing that is getting more and more mention is the decreasing quality of the Russian soldier. This should not be surprising (I would have expected it to have happened sooner) but the enormous losses that the Russians have suffered, and their insatiable need to send more and more forces into the attack, seem to be reaching a point of diminishing returns.

Even in a closely guarded society such as Russia, news of the massive casualties, miserable conditions in the army, and poor training has been circulating. To actually raise soldiers, the Russians have to rely increasingly on those who have no other option and probably understand that they are signing up for close to certain death or serious disability. And those soldiers the Russians do raise seem barely trained. There were reports in the last week that the amount of training that Russian soldiers are getting before being sent to the front is down to one week.

And after their extremely quick training, these soldiers are sent forward quickly to make bloody assaults for little/no gain. The tactics are resulting in such high losses and low morale that the extremely nationalistic Russian milblogger community is now regularly bemoaning the present state of the Russian army. Btw, the casualty rates the Russians are suffering make this all plausible. While the week before saw two higher days, Russian casualties over the past week averaged comfortably over 1000 per day.

Here is the daily reported breakdown of Russian personnel losses as judged by the Ukrainians:

• March 28: 1,300 casualties

• March 27: 1,000 casualties

• March 26: 1,210 casualties

• March 25: 1,220 casualties

• March 24: 890 casualties

• March 23: 970 casualties

• March 22: 940 casualties

The issue with poorer quality soldiers getting less training, is that once a ship heads in that direction it is very hard to turn it around. The losses and frustrations on the battlefield will continue to be a disincentive (to put it mildly) dissuading those from serving, and that means those men that somehow end up in the Russian army will be needed at the front sooner and sooner—which means they will get even more degraded training. You can see the vicious cycle developing.

Btw, this was one of the reasons those who for two years were clamoring for Ukraine to draft more unwilling people for the army and send them to the front were being so dangerous. Compelling unmotivated soldiers to serve in such a horrible battle area could make things worse. It is far better to reform the military you have (the Ukrainian military was/is in need of reform) and adjust to the technological realities of the battlefield than generate soldiers through force and send them to the front. Here is a piece from late 2025 which tried to walk readers through just this dilemma. The Russians decided to throw troops at the question, the Ukrainians have tried to adapt.

Much more at https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-178-two-weeks-in
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