Georgia and Latvia demanded the names of children vacationing at Artek
The governments of Georgia and Latvia demanded that the management of Artek provide information about their children who were vacationing in the annexed territory.” Artek director Alexey Kasprzhak stated this on the Russian NTV channel.
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“Georgia is not the only example. There is an official appeal from the Ministry of Latvia to us with a request to write down the last names, first names, and patronymics of the children who came to Artek. We forwarded them to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, considering that...
You see, “Artek” is the world of childhood, it is a world in which there are no boundaries. Here we are trying to form some rules by which the world of adults will live tomorrow. It seems to us that the borders will be less threatening and more transparent,” Kasprzak said.
In the four years since Crimea became Russian, the number of children who spent time at Artek during the year increased from 6,5 thousand in 2014 to 40 thousand in 2017. The management expects that 50 thousand children will come next year.
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