This is Andrey Shinyagin. In 2018 he was imprisoned for abducting and torturing seven women. Now, after spending two months on the front line in Ukraine, he’s going to be a schoolteacher.
1/11 🧵How Putin's "new elite" is taking shape:
1/11 🧵How Putin's "new elite" is taking shape:
Shinyagin and three accomplices were found to have abducted the women, taken them to his apartment, drugged them, undressed them and filmed them, before demanding money, threatening to release the videos if they refused to pay 2/11
In places with proper safeguards, someone like him wouldn't be allowed near kids. But not in Putin's Russia. After fighting in Ukraine, he went to a 'military-patriotic education center' and passed a teaching course 3/11
What can this man teach children? What kind of example can he set them? And of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Because Shinyagin is not the only veteran of this illegal war to take this opportunity 4/11
While real, qualified teachers are leaving their jobs – and Russia – en masse because of the regime’s insistence on ‘patriotic education’ and increased scrutiny from authorities, they are being replaced by people like Shinyagin 5/11
Many of those who don’t become teachers are going into politics instead. At the recent local elections, more than 300 ‘heroes of the special military operation’ were elected to councils as members of the ruling United Russia party 6/11
Like Sergey Sechenov, who fought in Syria and Ukraine and was recently elected to the Tomsk city council. Last week, he claimed Ukraine planned to invade Russia in February 2022. 7/11tomsk-novosti.ru/sergej-secheno…
Or former commander Dmitry Aksenov, now a member of the Khanty Mansiysk regional council. In November 2022 his troops were filmed shouting that they ‘want blood, want to kill’ – clearly a shining example of leadership 8/11t.me/horizontal_rus…
Not that it needs to be said, but when convicted criminals become educators and policymakers, it's clear that the government prioritizes loyalty over integrity. 9/11
The future of Russia hinges on reversing this dangerous course, and global solidarity can play a big role in promoting a return to integrity and the rule of law. 10/11
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