Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely creating conditions for forced cultural assimilation of Ukrainians displaced to Russia. So he wants to erase the cultural identity of the citizens of Ukraine, reports the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Thus, on August 29, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Ethnicities, Igor Barinov, discussed with Putin the creation of so-called " In particular, according to Barinov, the agency he leads is working on programs in unnamed pilot regions to make sure that “migrants” before Russia knew and respected Russian traditions, customs and laws.. In Russia, they justify such measures by saying that they want to prevent the “social isolation” of “migrants”.

Judging by the words of Barinov, the aggressor country is afraid of the formation of ethnic minorities enclaves. At the same time, the head of the agency is convinced that the formation of such enclaves will lead to an aggravation of ethnic crime in Russia.. And Barinov considers adaptation centers an effective tool for maintaining the stability of migrant communities.

In addition, Russian migration expert Alexander Verkhovsky has stated in the media that such programs should be structured as a cross between refugee camps and migrant training centers.. He also claims that more than 3.5 million IDPs from Ukraine have entered the Russian Federation since the start of the full-scale invasion..

ISW stressed that many Ukrainians were moved to Russia against their will. In addition, the Russian government forcibly removed about 1,000 Ukrainian children from Mariupol.. The institute noted that the forced transfer of children "

“The creation of so-called social adaptation programs in Russia would add a social dimension to the legal framework through which Putin is likely seeking to forcibly assimilate Ukrainians culturally in the Russian Federation,” the Institute for the Study of War noted..

In addition, Putin recently signed two decrees on the indefinite stay and employment in the Russian Federation of stateless persons and " At the same time, Ukrainians who ended up in Russia after February 18 are provided with the appointment of certain social payments.. In turn, Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev also said that in September the Russian Federation will start working on a bill on the conditions for the entry, exit and stay of foreigners in the country..

“Putin’s decrees and the bill to which Medvedev refers are probably designed to create conditions for the permanent stay of migrants from Ukraine in Russia. Thus, in essence, forming the skeleton of an extended campaign of population transfer between Ukraine and Russia in order to Russify Ukrainians. Programs in so-called adaptation centers would likely serve as a form of cultural reprogramming to erase Ukrainian cultural identity from displaced Ukrainians who either fled to Russia or were deported by Russian authorities,” ISW explained..

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Earlier, Ukrainian presidential commissioner for children's rights Daria Gerasimchuk said that the Russian Federation illegally deported more than 180,000 children to the temporarily occupied territories, including about 2,000 orphans.. Some of the children were sent to Russia.

By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Ukrainian orphans began to be given Russian citizenship under the " And in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, newborns are forcibly recorded as “citizens of the Russian Federation”.