Ukrainian officials have said that if Ukrainian teachers will teach the Russian curriculum, they will be considered traitors. The more complicated question is what to do with Ukrainians living there and working there. If Ukraine doesn't manage to win back those lands, if Russia does successfully annex them, I think Russia will further become a pariah state.
Russia is paying teachers big bucks to teach a pro-Kremlin curriculum in Ukraine. It’s part of a campaign to formally annex occupied Ukraine into the Russian Federation.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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