The ceremony of raising the national flag will be introduced in schools after Putin’s instructions

The Ministry of Education from the new academic year will disseminate the practice of raising the national flag in schools, said the head of the department Sergei Kravtsov. transfers RIA Novosti.

“There should be no formalism here. We are sure that this is a good practice; it already exists in many regions. The schoolchildren themselves want and want to participate in the flag-raising ceremony, ”he said.

Earlier, on August 25, the idea of ​​raising the Russian flag every day supported Vladimir Putin. This initiative was put forward by Vyacheslav Antipov, an educator at the Artek ICC camp. Putin called this practice a “good tradition” that exists in educational institutions around the world. He instructed to allocate funding for the implementation of the idea from the federal budget.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said at the meeting that this issue had already been considered earlier. According to her, the legislation on education does not hinder, and even encourages such an initiative.