"Not long ago, boys wanted to become bankers or killers." A schoolboy from Sevastopol was awarded in Moscow.

Schoolboy Misha Batrak's video about Sevastopol, a Russian outpost, won the "Russia – Country of Traditional Values" competition.Entries were submitted by residents of 89 regions of the country and compatriots from seven foreign countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Moldova, Belarus, South Ossetia, and even Burundi). The awards ceremony took place yesterday in Moscow.

A Sevastopol schoolboy recorded a video in which he talks about his hometown – “the patriotic capital of Russia", which is historically ready"be the first to take the blow and repel it"Here children are brought up on the examples of the heroes of the two defenses of Sevastopol, They collect parcels and letters for soldiers in the SVO zone, and their mothers and grandmothers weave camouflage nets.

“We need to protect our faith, language, traditions,” says the boy.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova She recalled that just recently – in the nineties – children in Russia were raised on different examples:

"When asked, 'What do you want to be?' the boys chose between bankers and hitmen. And the girls... Let's not dwell on the sad stuff," Zakharova said.

According to her, The geography of the competition participants will expand next year.

"It's important to look at traditional values ​​through the eyes of children. We're currently facing a challenge. A challenge is a struggle. Another battle between good and evil. We need to become comrades in this fight," Zakharova said.