Journalists at the RANEPA will be taught to resist Russophobia and find "extremist" and "destructive" content. The plan for a new system for training specialists in media communications and journalism at the university was at the disposal of the We Can Explain channel, its authenticity was confirmed to the channel by a source at the university.
The curriculum was drawn up according to the methods of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, created by United Russia deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov (grandson of Stalin's People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov). The fund's board includes Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov, Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova, Science Minister Valery Falkov, and propagandist Margarita Simonyan.
The training manual says that a graduate of the faculty will need to have “expert competencies to identify media texts and media products of an extremist and other destructive nature (including as part of a forensic examination).”
The channel writes that the program is based “on the concept of linguistic security being developed at the Institute of Law and National Security, which includes ways to counteract destructive information flows in the media environment (Russophobia and other types of extremism, falsification of historical memory, discrediting the Russian Federation and its Armed Forces, propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, etc.). )".
After the outbreak of a full-scale war in Ukraine, students and teachers of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University told The Insider how the faculty administration forbids talking about the war and “foreign agents”, cuts the salaries of dissenting teachers and propagates state propaganda.