Universities get behind the re-election of Vladimir Putin

Russian universities have joined Vladimir Putin’s election campaign. At the end of December, similar messages appeared on the websites of educational institutions, as well as on their pages on VK, Russia’s largest social media platform. Some of them were published on the same day – 29 December, writes Olesia Krivtsova for The Barents Observer.

For example, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NarFU), Naryan-Mar campus, published this on VK: “The staff of the NArFU branch in Naryan-Mar left their signatures in support of Vladimir Putin’s candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections”.

Earlier, NArFU published a post in which it advertised Putin’s self-nomination for the presidential election. In the post, the university did not forget to mention the results of Putin’s rule related to the academic environment. According to the Russian education law, teaching staff are prohibited from using educational activities for political agitation or coercion of students to accept or renounce political, religious or other beliefs.
Full report on The Barents Observer site