Russia

 Washington Post: To please Putin, universities purge liberals and embrace patriots - Russian university leaders are imbuing the country’s education system with patriotism to favor Putin, quashing Western influences and dissent. By Mary Ilyushina

In a radical reshaping of Russia’s education system, curriculums are being redrawn to stress patriotism and textbooks rewritten to belittle Ukraine, glorify Russia and whitewash the totalitarian Soviet past.