{"id":49215,"date":"2026-07-23T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=49215"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:51:47","slug":"militarizing-children-russian-authorities-introduce-a-new-list-of-z-propaganda-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/militarizing-children-russian-authorities-introduce-a-new-list-of-z-propaganda-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Militarizing children: russian authorities introduce a new list of Z-propaganda books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia\u2019s ministry of education has distributed updated lists of \u201cpatriotic literature\u201d to libraries across all russian regions for stocking library collections and assigning extracurricular reading. The list includes propaganda books about russia\u2019s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The recommended reading list for schools now features a separate section titled \u201cZa our own\u201d, using the occupation symbol \u201cZ\u201d in its name. The books in this section openly glorify the russian occupation forces and justify the armed aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The systematic promotion of \u201cZ literature\u201d in the education system is part of russia\u2019s broader campaign to militarize children. Its purpose is to turn the educational environment into a tool of propaganda and ideological indoctrination, raising an entire generation of future soldiers for the kremlin\u2019s next wars of aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia\u2019s ministry of education has distributed updated lists of \u201cpatriotic literature\u201d to libraries across all russian regions for stocking library collections and assigning extracurricular reading. The list includes propaganda books about russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. \u25ab\ufe0f The recommended reading list for schools now features a separate section titled \u201cZa our own\u201d, using the occupation symbol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}