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Youth
re-education needed for Russian moral crisis: Putin
Thursday December 13, 2012 09:10:51 PM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: Russian society lacks "spiritual braces" to hold it together, and
should look to education and "traditional values" to change that,
according to President Vladimir Putin.
"It pains me to speak of this … but Russian society today lacks
spiritual braces - kindness, sympathy, compassion toward one
another, support and mutual assistance, a deficit of which has
always, throughout history, made us stronger," he said during his
state-of-the-nation address in Moscow Wednesday.
While government interference in people's convictions and views
smacks of "totalitarianism" and is "absolutely unacceptable",
Putin said, the state should focus on strengthening society's
"spiritual-moral foundation" through education and youth policy.
He instructed the government to prepare a supplementary
educational program focusing on "vospitanie" - a Russian cultural
concept that refers to preparing young people for adulthood,
usually through moral upbringing and conferring rules of
etiquette, values and traditions.
Putin also said in terms of impact on young people, schools are
losing to the internet and electronic media, and should restore
their "unconditional value".
The president also praised grassroots charity activism, which is
on the rise in the country, and promised a separate meeting with
their volunteers in the unspecified near future.
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