With Putin in support, the Moscow government have implemented a new national curriculum that sets out to provide children as young as seven with an automatic weapon and military training.
Russia’s playgrounds are becoming parade grounds. At schools from the Pacific to the Black Sea, children in nursery grade don uniforms and take part in marching practice. Older kids are being taught how to dig trenches, throw grenades and shoot with real ammunition.
Pre-school children take part in marching practice in photographs taken across Russia - and older kids are even being taught how to dig trenches and throw grenades