A new low? UK press 'exposes' Russian school for children of diplomats in London which teaches 'how to assemble kalashnikovs'

Dan Woodlandor
Daily Mail
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:06 UTC

Other pupils was also seen hoisting the Russian tricolour flag as they took part in the back to school assembly

A Russian school in west London has been teaching its pupils how to assemble guns and throw grenades as part of a strict anti-western curriculum.

Comment: 'Anti-West' seems unlikely since Russia considers itself as one of the last bastions of European culture. Anti-woke? Indeed.

The Russian Embassy School in Notting Hill is attended by the children of some known and suspected Russian spies as well as Soviet diplomats working in the UK.

Comment: Most countries pepper their embassy staff with spies, but what has this got to do with innocent children?

They are taught on history lessons that Ukraine is a 'puppet of the West' that has set out to 'destabilise' Russia, while they practice lobbing hand grenades by throwing tennis balls during PE.

Comment: And the West teaches its children that the billions of dollars it gives to the Kiev-junta and its Nazis are for 'fighting for freedom'.

In the last academic year, the school curriculum also included a class named 'combat properties of the Kalashnikov assault rifle', in which pupils would learn how to assemble and fire the weapon, according to The Times.

Comment: As is shown in the following video, gun assembly is a relatively common skill Russian schools teach:

Pupils returned to classes at the school on Monday, along with thousands of others schools across the UK, with pictures showing them hoisting the Russian tricolour flag and singing the national anthem in the playground.

Comment: It's because of upholding traditional values such as this that Russia has had to create a new visa for people, families in particular, who are fleeing the West.

The Russian embassy's deputy ambassador Alexander Gusarov currently serves as the headteacher and it is believed his children attend the school.

Ukrainian open-source intelligence agency Molfar has previously accused the 42-year-old of acting as an undercover spy for Moscow's foreign intelligence service, known as SVR.

Other parents of pupils at the school are thought to include Colonel Maxim Elovik who served as the Russian embassy's defence attaché until he was expelled from the UK in May after he was unmasked as a top spy.

Elovik had been in Britain for around a decade and was a also an assistant military attaché at Russia's embassy in the US.

Around 100 pupils are thought to attend the school, 60 of which are aged between seven and 18 who take classes for five days a week over three terms each year.

The remaining 40 or so attend classes in the evening.

A woman is seen leading a group of young school children across the playground on Monday

Pupils attending the Russian Embassy school in London are seen singing the Russian national anthem on Monday when they returned to classes following the summer break

Of these around three quarters have parents who work at the Russian embassy or the trade mission, while the rest are thought to be the children of Russian parents living in Britain or children of those working at the Belarus embassy.

Pupils, some of which hold British citizenship or dual nationality, are required to have knowledge of the Russian language.

Parents who are not diplomatic officials are made to pay fees of less than £1000 year, according to The Times.

Comment: An absolute bargain considering the quality of education they're receiving, especially in comparison to UK schools these days.

The school is just half a mile away from the Russian embassy and is situated in a Russian Victorian townhouse.

Upon entering the school pupils are greeted with a portrait of Vladimir Putin which hangs in the hallway entrance.

Comment: A portrait of the UK's sovereign is supposed to hung in official buildings. This is despite the King not doing very much at all to benefit the country - and worse - whilst living in the lap of luxury, and profiting very handsomely from it. And the King has an approval rating of 15% less than President Putin.

Teachers must follow the Russian state curriculum, with propagandised history lessons that present the war in Ukraine as part of Russia's historical mission.

Lesson plans for the last academic year reportedly revealed how older pupils were taught hour long classes in battlefield maneuvers, military signals, and first aid for combat situations every week, according to The Times.

Comment: Surely first aid is applicable to more than just military situations, Daily Mail?

One former pupil, who left the school in 2022 but did not want to be named, told the newspaper that pupils also practice throwing grenades using tennis balls.

Pictures from the school's sports day earlier this year show children taking part in competitive bandaging and crossbow shooting.

Pupils also dressed up in Red Army, the military force of the Russian Soviet Republic, while celebrating Victory Day, which commemorates the country's victory over the Nazis in 1945, according to The Times.

The school does not come under the jurisdiction of the Department for Education or the schools inspectorate.

This is because it is subject to diplomatic exemptions as a branch of the Russian embassy.

There are around 80 other Russian embassy schools located around the world, although one school in Warsaw was shut down by the Polish government last year in a move branded as an 'invasion' by the Kremlin.

Comment: Presumably the UK's propaganda media would be more comfortable if the children were being taught how to assemble their gender identity, and what chemicals and surgery would be required to achieve this goal? As is done in the ideological indoctrination classes held in Western schools.

The Russian embassy in London had the following to say:

Embassy Comment on disinformation in the British media about the Russian Embassy School in London

The Embassy is appalled by the slanderous article of September 6th in The Times (and subsequently in the Daily Mail) on the activities of the Russian Embassy School in London.

The flashy allegations of "militarisation" of the educational process, elevated to the headlines, are provocative in nature and based on the authors' deliberate distortion of information from publicly available documents regulating the activities of the school. This disinformation, in turn, is heavily laced with primitive Russophobic stereotypes.

The Russian Embassy School in London is a certified civil educational institution that provides services in full compliance with Russian and British legislation.

It has been operating for over half a century and did not cease to function even at the height of the Cold War. Its impeccable reputation is based on high educational standards, the exceptional professionalism of the faculty members and a tailored approach to pupils.

In their publications the relevant British media seem to be intent on destroying this reputation, which has been built up over decades.

This further highlights the steadily degrading journalistic standards of the once respectable British media. In an effort to sustain the fading anti-Russian campaign, which the local public has largely lost interest in, some reporters do not shy away from low-quality attacks on Russian schoolchildren, their parents and teachers.

This situation is in stark contrast to Russia, where conditions have been created and are maintained for the successful operation of a considerable number of English-language educational institutions.

The Embassy is obliged to consider this action in the context of bilateral Russia-UK relations as a violation of the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, as well as the basic norms of journalistic ethics, the principles of privacy and personal data protection.