Teachers are usually offered salaries that are about up to 13 times what they might have been paid in Russia. Dagestan provided the highest number of recruited teachers at about 57 to 60 people. With the secrecy overall, we don't know exactly, you know, what changes of the curriculum will be implemented.
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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