Before, during and after Sochi: Yekaterinburg will show how the Olympic Games have changed Russia. - but thought about it

February in our school is declared the month of the military - patriotic education.
One of the planned events of the month is the "Letter to a Soldier" campaign.
The action went on for two weeks. During this time, dozens of children became the authors of letters addressed to young people. It has become a good tradition to congratulate the graduates of our school serving in the ranks Russian Army Happy Defender of the Fatherland.
The action, designed mainly for high school students, but did not leave indifferent children from elementary and high school. The students did not stop only at the genre of writing and composed stories, poems, and drew pictures.
The results of the campaign have been summed up.
Here are the winners:
1st place was awarded to Alina Serdyuk, 6th grade student
2nd place Yulia Mungalova, 5th grade
2nd place Arsentieva Vlada 6th grade
3rd place Vtorushina Ksyusha 6th grade
3rd place Khabibulina Alina, 5th grade.

Actively participated in the action Sergey Kozmin, Marina Pimenova, Karina Uskova, Lisa Lytkina, Lisa Boyarkina.
We hope that the received letters for our soldiers will be good news from their native places.

A letter came to a soldier from his homeland,
Not everyone will understand, but this is happiness for him!
The soldier will take the envelope, open it and read it ...
And his memory will take him to his native land.
Forget about fatigue, about the fact that he wanted to sleep,
About the fact that he practically did not eat in the morning ...
And he will remember the time when he was a boy,
How he had fun, ran, how he lived with his grandmother,
As in the summer I swam in the river, I ran barefoot across the field,
As if having played enough, on a hot day under a tree lay ...
The soldier will read in a letter that everything is fine with relatives,
Well, you don't need anything else to be happy.
Wipes away a tear with his hand, more conveniently intercepts the machine,
There is no time for sadness, sadness, for that he is a soldier!
His duty is to keep the Motherland, like a gate on the castle,
Having experienced all the hardships of a soldier's service on himself.

Here are some of the letters:
"Hello Yasha!
The sister of your friend Sergei, Alina Serdyuk, is writing to you.
At our school, the action "Letter to a Soldier" was announced on the occasion of the Defender of the Fatherland Day.
Pupils of our school should write letters to former pupils of the 11th grade of our school who pay their debt to our Motherland.
I will write about myself and about our village. In the village, everything is the same, but the school has become better, it has been overhauled. The school has become warmer and cozier. Yasha, I have classroom teacher, your former teacher Lytkina Irina Alexandrovna. Our class is friendly.
How is your service going? How are you doing in general?
I wish you all the best, health and success in your service. Hurry up and return home.


Military uniform
men to face
Especially for those who are young
Let it not scare you
March.
Heat and bitter cold!
Serve, come back and be again
"Citizen" to wear any.
And you will, of course, remember
Army life is not easy!
Today is your holiday.
After all, you are "in boots"
May the service go smoothly.
The defense of Russia is in safe hands!
And you are her worthy son!

All the best to you, Happy Holidays! Serve honestly and return to your native village. Sincerely, Alina.

"Hello, soldier!
Hello, defender of the Motherland!
This letter is written to you by students of the 7th grade of the Novotsurukhaituy school, the school where you studied. In our school, the action "Write a letter to a soldier" is held.
Wherever you serve: tank, ground troops, air, we are glad that you serve and defend our Motherland!
Our letter is a thank you!
Thank you very much, soldier, for serving, guarding our peace so that we live, go to school, and grow. You protect this land because we have to live on it! Most importantly, we want to wish you to return healthy and tell your own and other people's children. What to serve in the army - an honor!
You real soldier because you are already serving. We believe that our army is very strong, powerful and can repulse any enemy, whatever it may be. We are proud of you!
Serve faithfully and honestly and know that they are waiting for you at home, they believe in you!!!

Yulia Abzaltdinova's exhibition "The Great Game" will open at the Yeltsin Center Art Gallery on June 8.

According to the curators of the exhibition, the three-part project explores the space of change and analyzes the time of change in the country. To do this, Yulia Abzaltdinova took "a single, but bright point on the map - the city of Sochi and its environs, in a single period recent history— preparation, holding and legacy of the Winter Olympic Games”.

Work on the first part of the "Legends" project began six years ago with fixing the visual change of the city in connection with upcoming events. But in parallel with the study of the ancient myths of the region, the author proceeds to interpret the new mythology of place and time.

Julia filmed the second part of the FAN ID project during the Olympic Games themselves. There she draws a portrait of a Russian fan who landed in Sochi as a "landing force" and became a symbol of the new Russian identity.

The third part of the "Reserve" was created two years after the Games. In it, the author not only examines the legacy of modern ideology through the new look of the city, the landscape changed by man and contemporary portraits local residents, but also creates an image of a protected habitat for people.

This year the project will be presented in Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Tobolsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, and will be completed in Sochi in February 2018.

Yulia Abzaltdinova was born in Yekaterinburg and now lives in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. A. Rodchenko. Since 2015 in the Union of Photographers of Russia. Works with the theme of representation national identity, captures traces of human influence on natural landscape. She took part in exhibitions and at international and Russian photographic festivals.

The bottom of the Ural Federal University. Who sets up students against "colorados" and "quilted jackets"? October 8th, 2015

Colleagues from Nakanune.RU made a very powerful analysis of the situation.

Who really works for Maidanization in UrFU? Lots of screenshots.

The ban on exhibitions about World War II and the Great Patriotic War in the Ural federal university reached Russian television, and the scandal took on a federal dimension. A radically minded minority in the university succeeded in removing expositions about the fight against fascism, which is surprising - this was done on the basis of a "denunciation".

Who was behind the closing of the exposition and what was the university guided by when making such a decision? As far as one can judge, the campaign against the exhibition was organized by radical students and teachers (sympathizers of the Maidan-2014 in Ukraine and the “bog” movements in Russia). Among the teachers of the university, two teachers of UrFU mathematics and mechanics were the most active: Andrey Sozykin and Yuri Okulovsky. A group of young teachers decided to proceed in their favorite way. Not even a day had passed since the opening, as one hurried to send a memo to the rector of UrFU, Viktor Koksharov. And the second - published an Internet version of the slander. Both acted openly, campaigning in the public field to support the attack on the exhibitions.

What was the main claim to the exhibition? In addition to simply false accusations (for example, it was indicated that the organizers "silenced" the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, but he was only given a different assessment), the "liberal" teachers were frightened by the "propaganda" content of the exhibition, supposedly allusions to extremism and national strife.

But, as it turned out later, the so-called "liberal" figures simply do not want a point of view different from theirs to appear at the university.

UrFU teachers scared by "extremism" in children's drawings about the Great Victory?

Yes, and the "troublemakers" themselves are engaged in propaganda: for example, Okulovsky immediately admits that he actively preaches his views, although he does not always find mutual understanding.

One of Okulovsky's posts contains openly extremist appeals. They are aimed at the so-called "s *** Colorados." It turns out that the Colorados deprived Okulovsky of his favorite Valio cheese.

Another disappointment of the young teacher - the "Colorados" dared to hang St. George ribbons in honor of the 70th anniversary Great Victory. And this is in his beloved Ural Federal University!

The third event that influenced Okulovsky: the 2014 Olympics. We do not undertake to assess what it is: a call for mass terrorist attacks, incidents? I would like to think not. The wish of the Maidan to Russia modestly completes the tirade of "dissenters".

Now let's evaluate the methods by which the "anti-vatnik" teachers fought against the exhibition.

First, the educated group quite specifically supported the act of vandalism against the exhibition.

Secondly, the group did not shy away from other "unworthy tricks". It was Okulovsky's colleague, Mr. Sozykin, who, perhaps, tried to call the exhibition "pro-fascist", which was later picked up by the liberal media.

Finally, having easily frightened the administration of the university by spreading disinformation, the Maidan teachers decided to enthusiastically organize "societies of normal people" (which, as Okulovsky writes, are lacking at the university). I wonder who gave the right to the "young teacher" of Ural Federal University to judge the normality of himself and the abnormality of the teachers and students around him - after all, is this pedagogical?

But young teachers have already infected some students with their spirit:

Okulovsky's post elicited a reaction from a young mathematics student.

Okulovsky's "companions" from the student community quite clearly state: their goal is "Maidan in Russia."

Note: Right Sector is an extremist nationalist organization banned in Russia.

There can be only one question here: where does the university leadership look? Which, by the way, has not yet clarified its position on the removal of the exhibition and has not named the reasons. However, not all students supported the demarches of the "Maidanists". There is also a petition against the ban on the exhibition.

One thing is clear: what we saw the other day, this is the "bottom" of the Ural Federal, and behind the "progressive views" of the new "technical intelligentsia", "academic discussions" with the invitation to the university of figures like Inozemtsev, Yasin, Venediktov, there is a division into "normal and abnormal", outright extremism and hatred for groups of people on a national basis. It seems that something went wrong in the "liberalization" of the university.

In addition to the question to the administration of UrFU, the editors sent requests to Roskomnadzor, Rosobrnadzor and the prosecutor's office, in which they asked to explain whether there was really something extremist in the exhibition materials, or, at times, vague interpretations of the law on extremism were used to close the exposition? The obrnadzor replied that the issue was not within the competence of the department and offered to redirect it to the federal Ministry of Education, which we did. The prosecutor's office assured that they would give an answer in the near future.