{
  "id": 7968982,
  "title": "Meduza found Russia’s unpublished anti-extremism plan on a school website. It calls for identifying ‘Russophobes’ in the military and using AI for propaganda.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/meduza-found-russias-unpublished-anti-extremism-plan-on-a-school",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-17T06:11:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/slides/meduza-found-russia-s-unpublished-anti-extremism-plan-on-a-school-website-it-calls-for-identifying-russophobes-in-the-military-and-using-ai-for-propaganda"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Russian officials have published an anti-extremism plan on a school website that goes beyond its original scope, according to the investigative site Meduza. The document, titled \"Action Plan for Implementing the Russian Federation’s Strategy for Countering Extremism,\" was found on a school in the Krasnodar Krai region. It calls for identifying \"Russophobes\" in the military and using artificial intelligence for propaganda.\n\nThe plan was reportedly endorsed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko in March 2025, despite never being officially published. The Kremlin approved the strategy in December 2024, outlining the main \"extremist\" threats and how it intends to combat them. The action plan lists 77 specific measures, including targeting Russophobia within the military and security agencies.\n\nThe document seems to suggest that Russophobia is considered a new threat, though this appears to be focused solely on the military and security agencies. Meduza found that the plan sometimes extends beyond the original document, particularly when it comes to specific measures like tracking extremist activities among conscripts and contract soldiers. The strategy also includes plans to prevent extremist ideology from infiltrating the sports sector, though this appears to be a broader catch-all that could theoretically apply to any kind of sports school.",
  "summary": "Meduza found a publicly accessible copy of the unpublished “Action Plan for Implementing the Russian Federation’s Strategy for Countering Extremism.” Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko approved the plan in March 2025. The document was never officially published, but the authors of related regional and municipal plans cited a draft with the same title and reference number (No.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}