“I met through social networks ...” About testing students for extremism
On the eve of the trial of the Moscow District Military Court, the state prosecutor asked Alexander Ivanov, a former student of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, to be sentenced to five years in prison before the name change. It is about the very “honors pupil, komsomol woman, sportswoman” who intended to move to Syria through the territory of Turkey in order to find herself in the ranks of the Islamic State terrorist group (prohibited in the Russian Federation).
Karaulov, it turned out, became the object of recruiting a terrorist organization through a social network. The recruitment was carried out using all the psychological subtleties, including an understanding of the “maiden longing”, as a result of which the student decided that she was in love with an emissary and was ready to go where the “network lover” would point.
As it is known, Karaulov was intercepted in time in Turkey and returned to Moscow, having organized monitoring of her activities. Then Karaulov decided to change the name to Alexander Ivanov, and she did not refuse to communicate with the representative of the terrorist conglomerate. Social network again, love again ... amor ...
Of course, it is hardly worth thinking here that Karaulov-Ivanov, through the network, is completely imbued with ideas of destructive pseudo-Islam. As they say in Russia, the girl did not have enough attention, so she started spinning ... However, well, Karauralov, in theory, should be fully aware of her responsibility, because she was going to a clear crime. And “love” by Russian legislation, it seems, is not a mitigating circumstance when a crime is committed ...
But Varvara Karaulov, with her network "acquaintance" with an ISIL recruiter, is the most resonant recent incident. And how many more such “Barbarian”, who are depressed in their parents' apartments and want “big and pure love”, live in Russia? He does not just live, but also actively, as they say, “uses” social networks for loving superscripts, who in fact set completely different goals. And not only “Barbarian”, but also “Sing”, “Sash”, “Lesh”, “Kohl”, which “use” the network no less actively, stumbling, for example, on those who promise to teach “honestly” to make a million per month, putting the "minimum" effort. And the network actively “uses” them ...
Naturally, such network users initially do not realize what kind of contacts they suddenly find, and who (what) actually stands behind these contacts. At first they don’t give up, and then it’s already too late ...
Are there ways to counter the growth in the number of “lost sheep” among young people who are dissatisfied with their current situation? The Federal Agency for National Affairs (FADN) decided that they know one of the measures, if not an unambiguous reduction in the number of those who are ready to join extremist communities, then a measure of early detection of such. Newspaper "Vedomosti" reports that the FADN at the past forum “The Russian Caucasus: the Territory of Unity” proposed a joint program with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. It lies in the questioning of students of Russian educational institutions on the subject of "sympathy for extremists and a propensity for a positive perception of extremism."
The submission states that this kind of questioning as an experiment should be conducted in universities - upon admission or on the 1 course. The experiment itself at the initial stage will be carried out in Moscow, and then, if it is recognized as successful, it will be distributed by specialized government agencies to all regions of the Russian Federation.
After such information was announced by the FADN, there were both supporters of the idea and its opponents. Supporters see in the initiative the possibility of identifying sympathizers with extremists and potential extremists in the youth on the basis of tests prepared by specialists. Opponents see in the same more “paper” than a really existing measure.
If you try to look at the idea of conducting a “anti-extremist” survey from a purely neutral position, then there are probably more questions than answers. With all the external expediency of such activities (because it, as stated, will allow to identify potential extremists before they commit any illegal act) undisclosed nuances remain. First of all, how effective can the “extremism” test be, and by what specific specialists will it be prepared? Secondly (their “first” flows), is it possible that the applicant (student), who already knows about his willingness to join the extremist environment, will be able to “deceive” the test, understanding how to “correctly” answer , not to be the object of attention from law enforcement? Thirdly, what specifically to do with the test results, and who exactly will take action if the student shows his extremist inclinations in answering questions? Will this be an additional burden for teachers to work separately with potential accomplices of terrorists, or will a student be automatically registered with law enforcement agencies?
What is at the moment? In general education and vocational schools, a directive from law enforcement agencies was issued on the subject of the need to monitor the activity of students (students) in social networks on the subject of extremism. Monitoring, in the understanding of law enforcement, should be engaged, the curators of groups or class supervisors. When taking into account the volume of the “paper” load, which already lies on the shoulders of the teaching staff of schools, colleges and universities, this work turns into a blatant formality: the report is handed over to the student / student’s “extremist” online dating - a tick by law enforcement agencies set. At the same time, neither in an educational institution nor in a testing instance are they particularly prepared to ask: how much does the same class teacher really track the contacts of his charges, considering the fact of their possible activity in a wide variety of social networks, often using nicknames (network aliases) ...
The formality of the approach leads to the fact that there is a report in the form of a piece of paper about checking for extremism, but in reality there is no systematic check. At the same time, even a cursory check of contacts between Russian schoolchildren and students leads to not the most comforting conclusions. In contacts of a considerable number of representatives of studying youth, there are “slippery” personalities who spread sketches with Nazi or terrorist symbols. Here are a few graphic examples of what our young people like on social networks (in order not to have problems with Roskomnadzor, certain adjustments have been made to the schedule):
Until then, students learn to “dock” in such cases, and where it’s common to draw the boundary between the school’s (student’s) desire watershed will trivially stand out from the crowd and discharge from the crowd by becoming criminal on the slippery road is a serious question. And the answer to it, even if it sounds a little snobbish, can only be found by everyone, like the whole place, and draw the appropriate conclusions. It is also important here that the state structures, having taken up the matter, do not overreact and do not arrange a feast of total prohibitions, which can also have the opposite effect.
Karaulov, it turned out, became the object of recruiting a terrorist organization through a social network. The recruitment was carried out using all the psychological subtleties, including an understanding of the “maiden longing”, as a result of which the student decided that she was in love with an emissary and was ready to go where the “network lover” would point.
As it is known, Karaulov was intercepted in time in Turkey and returned to Moscow, having organized monitoring of her activities. Then Karaulov decided to change the name to Alexander Ivanov, and she did not refuse to communicate with the representative of the terrorist conglomerate. Social network again, love again ... amor ...
Of course, it is hardly worth thinking here that Karaulov-Ivanov, through the network, is completely imbued with ideas of destructive pseudo-Islam. As they say in Russia, the girl did not have enough attention, so she started spinning ... However, well, Karauralov, in theory, should be fully aware of her responsibility, because she was going to a clear crime. And “love” by Russian legislation, it seems, is not a mitigating circumstance when a crime is committed ...
But Varvara Karaulov, with her network "acquaintance" with an ISIL recruiter, is the most resonant recent incident. And how many more such “Barbarian”, who are depressed in their parents' apartments and want “big and pure love”, live in Russia? He does not just live, but also actively, as they say, “uses” social networks for loving superscripts, who in fact set completely different goals. And not only “Barbarian”, but also “Sing”, “Sash”, “Lesh”, “Kohl”, which “use” the network no less actively, stumbling, for example, on those who promise to teach “honestly” to make a million per month, putting the "minimum" effort. And the network actively “uses” them ...
Naturally, such network users initially do not realize what kind of contacts they suddenly find, and who (what) actually stands behind these contacts. At first they don’t give up, and then it’s already too late ...
Are there ways to counter the growth in the number of “lost sheep” among young people who are dissatisfied with their current situation? The Federal Agency for National Affairs (FADN) decided that they know one of the measures, if not an unambiguous reduction in the number of those who are ready to join extremist communities, then a measure of early detection of such. Newspaper "Vedomosti" reports that the FADN at the past forum “The Russian Caucasus: the Territory of Unity” proposed a joint program with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. It lies in the questioning of students of Russian educational institutions on the subject of "sympathy for extremists and a propensity for a positive perception of extremism."
The submission states that this kind of questioning as an experiment should be conducted in universities - upon admission or on the 1 course. The experiment itself at the initial stage will be carried out in Moscow, and then, if it is recognized as successful, it will be distributed by specialized government agencies to all regions of the Russian Federation.
After such information was announced by the FADN, there were both supporters of the idea and its opponents. Supporters see in the initiative the possibility of identifying sympathizers with extremists and potential extremists in the youth on the basis of tests prepared by specialists. Opponents see in the same more “paper” than a really existing measure.
If you try to look at the idea of conducting a “anti-extremist” survey from a purely neutral position, then there are probably more questions than answers. With all the external expediency of such activities (because it, as stated, will allow to identify potential extremists before they commit any illegal act) undisclosed nuances remain. First of all, how effective can the “extremism” test be, and by what specific specialists will it be prepared? Secondly (their “first” flows), is it possible that the applicant (student), who already knows about his willingness to join the extremist environment, will be able to “deceive” the test, understanding how to “correctly” answer , not to be the object of attention from law enforcement? Thirdly, what specifically to do with the test results, and who exactly will take action if the student shows his extremist inclinations in answering questions? Will this be an additional burden for teachers to work separately with potential accomplices of terrorists, or will a student be automatically registered with law enforcement agencies?
What is at the moment? In general education and vocational schools, a directive from law enforcement agencies was issued on the subject of the need to monitor the activity of students (students) in social networks on the subject of extremism. Monitoring, in the understanding of law enforcement, should be engaged, the curators of groups or class supervisors. When taking into account the volume of the “paper” load, which already lies on the shoulders of the teaching staff of schools, colleges and universities, this work turns into a blatant formality: the report is handed over to the student / student’s “extremist” online dating - a tick by law enforcement agencies set. At the same time, neither in an educational institution nor in a testing instance are they particularly prepared to ask: how much does the same class teacher really track the contacts of his charges, considering the fact of their possible activity in a wide variety of social networks, often using nicknames (network aliases) ...
The formality of the approach leads to the fact that there is a report in the form of a piece of paper about checking for extremism, but in reality there is no systematic check. At the same time, even a cursory check of contacts between Russian schoolchildren and students leads to not the most comforting conclusions. In contacts of a considerable number of representatives of studying youth, there are “slippery” personalities who spread sketches with Nazi or terrorist symbols. Here are a few graphic examples of what our young people like on social networks (in order not to have problems with Roskomnadzor, certain adjustments have been made to the schedule):
Until then, students learn to “dock” in such cases, and where it’s common to draw the boundary between the school’s (student’s) desire watershed will trivially stand out from the crowd and discharge from the crowd by becoming criminal on the slippery road is a serious question. And the answer to it, even if it sounds a little snobbish, can only be found by everyone, like the whole place, and draw the appropriate conclusions. It is also important here that the state structures, having taken up the matter, do not overreact and do not arrange a feast of total prohibitions, which can also have the opposite effect.
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