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Russian leader Vladimir Putin has expressed support for children as young as five being exposed to the weekly doses of war propaganda introduced after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

While Putin claimed that any such material must be made accessible to very small children, these weekly ‘conversations about important things’ glorify war and the army; and aim at inculcating a highly specific form of ‘patriotism’ and at pushing Russia’s false narrative about its war against Ukraine.