Crimea

Russia's education ministry is moving to strengthen state propaganda in kindergartens, with plans to teach young children about the annexation of Crimea and instill what officials call patriotic feelings. A ministry statement indicated that fostering patriotism in preschoolers is considered more important than teaching letters and numbers. Critics view the move as an intensification of ideological indoctrination of children under the banner of patriotic education.

Human rights defenders report that fellow inmates in the Russian penal colony holding Iryna Danylovych, a detained Crimean citizen journalist, have begun mistreating her, with the activists saying she 'can't bear it any longer'. Danylovych was sentenced after her 2022 arrest in occupied Crimea, and her supporters have repeatedly raised concerns about her health and treatment in custody.