In early November a national student forum was held in Barnaul, bringing together over 4,000 students from across Russia to discuss educational issues - from the way the education process is organized, to jobs for graduates and innovation in the future of Russian science. Incidentally, the forum was not simply for anyone who was interested, but for the most active students who had submitted projects and ideas as part of a competition aimed at addressing social problems in their institutions and regions.

All sorts of events were held during the forum, from plenary meetings and presentations, to master classes and panel discussions. There was also an informal meeting between the students and education minster Aleksey Fursenko. Quite unexpectedly, I received an invitation not only to take part in that meeting, but to moderate it. I sit on the Youth Affairs Committee and until recently was a student myself, so naturally I have first-hand experience of many of the problems faced by people in education, and by students in particular. And I myself run a number of educational projects for our young people (including the Unified State Examination hotline). So of course I was happy to accept the invitation to take part in the meeting, to hear young people’s views on how Russia’s education modernization programme is progressing and to try and act as a connecting link between the young participants in the forum and the education minister.

Actually it’s great that platforms like this forum exist. I talk a lot to young people and they often tell me that they’re not given enough attention, that nobody listens to them or helps them...But here you are – such opportunities do exist, and this proves once again that people want to hear what youth has to say, that our government is open for a conversation with young people and, most importantly, interested in getting them involved in tackling the issues that face our country. And this forum was further proof that the government is open for dialogue and interesting suggestions.

The forum brought together the most enterprising and creative students, post-graduates, young teachers and student self-administration activists who really care about what goes on in their hostel, institution, village, city or country…So I suggested to the guys that they use their meeting with the education minister they not only to ask questions, but also to give him their views on the modernization of the education system and some suggestions on educational reform, on the development of student self-administration and so on. Actually, I really think these sorts of meetings are very important – not only for the participants in the forum, but also for our government leaders, especially the education minister, because it’s a real opportunity to hear and see what makes our students today tick, what they find interesting and exciting, and also possibly to hear some interesting ideas on how to address specific issues.

The meeting was definitely productive. Naturally, the minister was asked masses of questions about education reform and the switch to the BA–Ma system, on the USE and the use of tests for assessment, student stipends and grants, jobs and accommodation, free Wi-Fi in hostels and lots of other things. Some interesting suggestions were put forward, and I’m sure the minister took note of them. So it was a very lively and interesting discussion, and judging by the number of hands raised in the hall the two hours set aside for that meeting with the minister were clearly not enough.

In mid-December there was a parliamentary hearing in the State Duma on Youth in the Modern Media Scene. The hearing was my idea and I was helped to organize it by the Youth Affairs Committee. During the hearing we raised the important issue of the media environment that surrounds our children and young people. This is a real problem, and one that’s actually much more complicated and serious than you might think at first sight.

In today’s media the predominance of violence and sensationalism has simply gone far too far. And there’s practically nothing educational - no public education or values-based programmes that could provide an example for young people to follow. Yet the media play a very important role in the upbringing of our young people, in forming their views of life and their attitudes to so many things... As a result, our young people are being brought up with a false set of bearings; they don’t see any positive examples - just negative things that destroy and disorientate...

I categorically refuse to accept the current state of the media, and that’s why I have my own TV programme called Steps towards Success (a programme about ways of succeeding), I run educational and training workshops on ethics for young regional journalists (the Young Journalists’ School) and have launched many youth projects. But I realize that my projects are only a small part of what can and needs to be done to make our current media environment more positive, interesting and educational...so it shows people ways of developing rather than degrading.

So then I had the idea of organizing a debate on the media environment in which our young people live in a State Duma parliamentary hearing. I suggested it to the Committee, my colleagues supported me and we started making preparations. I invited some very respected media and civil society personalities as speakers, and the audience included students from Russia’s top universities (Moscow State University, the Plekhanov Russian Economics University), linguistic and teacher training schools, media representatives, people’s deputies and even young regional journalists (graduates of my Young Journalists’ School).

The hearing was fascinating and very productive. The main speakers were Yasen Zasursky, President of the Journalism Faculty at Moscow State University and Daniil Dondurey, the media sociologist. There was also Mikhail Fedotov, Adviser to the Russian President and author of the current media law, Alexey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, TV presenter Marianna Maximovskaya, Mariya Slobodskaya, President of the Young Leaders national youth support foundation, and Darya Miloslavskaya, Chairman of the Civil Society nonprofit partnership. Some of my colleagues from the Duma also spoke: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Pavel Tarakanov, Chairman of the Youth Affairs Committee, and Alla Kuzmina, Chairman of the Committee for Public Associations and Religious Organizations. And at the very end of the hearing we invited the media representative to speak from the hall, including Susanna Alperina, humanities editor at the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” newspaper, and Marina Frantseva, a correspondent at the “Lukhovitskie Vesti” newspaper and also a graduate of our Young Journalists’ School. There was also the well-known internet blogger Alyona Popova, who spoke about young people in today’s internet.

Anyway, the speeches were really interesting - full of information and relevant. And in addition to the scheduled speeches there were also some spontaneous debates. For example, there was a very lively discussion of the recent events on Manezh Square in Moscow and the differences in mentality and traditions between people of different nationalities.

I have to say that all the speeches were fascinating and all very different - sometimes the experts were arguing from opposite points of view, though each opinion was backed up by serious analytical data. Lots of really interesting facts were put on the table, including findings of statistical and other studies and historical examples. I’m really grateful to the experts for their excellent contributions. Incidentally, I’m going to try and place the stenographic record of the hearing on my website in the very near future.

Right at the end of the hearing we had a discussion about the draft recommendations, in which we tried to set out some ideas that we think could help improve the quality of our media environment. These included recommendations to our Government, the State Duma Committees on Youth Affairs and Education, and also the mass media. Amongst our proposals was the idea of creating a special programme called Digital Library of Russia to help provide young people with access to electronic teaching literature, setting up free educational resources in the internet, simplifying the process of creating and registering youth media, and so on. And another important thing that was mentioned by the media sociologist and culture expert Daniil Dondurey is that we need some dedicated government programmes for the development of culture aimed at educating young people and to try to place development rather than mere entertainment at the centre of government policy on young people.

P.S. I should add that Education Minister Andrey Alexandrovich Fursenko recently spoke in the Duma during our Government Hour session, so I asked him about inserting a provision in the new basic federal education law about creating and supporting a network of electronic educational resources and ensuring free access to them. Andrey Alexandrovich replied that a number of measures are already being taken and more will be done in the near future.

In late May the Youth Affairs Committee held an offsite session in Yekaterinburg. The event was initiated and organized by Pavel Zyryanov - one of the members of our Committee – whose constituency is in Yekaterinburg. The Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Aleksandr Misharin also took part in the meeting and instead of the standard 15-20 minutes he spent two whole hours with us…

And that’s because we were discussing some very important issues, including some that affect the Urals region.

Despite all the skeptical comments I had heard about Yekaterinburg before going there, I really liked the city. Sure, it’s an industrial city with the unhappy reputation of being the place where the Czar’s family perished. But there was nothing gloomy about it. What we saw was a clean, sunny city…hospitable, intelligent and friendly.

During the meeting we reviewed the development strategy for youth policy and held an exchange of views. Representatives from the Sverdlovsk Governor’s office and Government presented the findings of a study within the region on infrastructure for young people (availability and functioning of youth centres, clubs for adolescents etc.) One of the biggest issues these days (which I mentioned in my speech) is what happens to facilities that are built for young people, especially major sports complexes. Building them is one thing, but keeping them in working order is something completely different. Who should be responsible for these places? Their upkeep is often beyond the capacity of the local authorities, but if they make them commercial that doesn’t solve the problem of mass-participation sport.

This is something that affects many regions nowadays. Take Kazan, for instance, where they’ve built a lot of facilities for the 2013 Universiade: tennis courts, wrestling rings and so on and so forth. The Tatarstan authorities are already worrying about what to do with these places afterwards. Who will take responsibility for them and maintain the sports complexes and other facilities built for the Universiade? After all, it costs a huge amount of money. The same problem could apply to Tskhinval, where my charity is building a large modern sports complex.

Another issue I raised in my speech concerns the draft law on youth policy. The President has said there’s no need to create a major dedicated law on youth policy spelling everything out in fine detail and that the existing legislation is perfectly adequate.

I share this view, though some people think differently. But there’s still a need for a framework law on youth (literally just a few pages long) setting out the key points and definitions. My team and I have put together a draft and I proposed it for discussion by the Committee in Yekaterinburg. It’s entitled “On State Support for Youth” and I’ll write about it in more detail later. For now, I’ll just mention that it provides benefits to young citizens in the fields of education, jobs and business start-up.

Actually, I don’t much like the term “youth policy” - I don’t think there is any such policy. There is and should be a policy FOR youth. Anyway, the draft still has to be discussed, and if the Committee approves it it will be tabled for review in the State Duma. I think the Committee’s first offsite meeting went very well and it adopted some important recommendations that I’ll publish after they’ve been approved.

To be honest, I’m absolutely delighted that I’ve managed to find a way of keeping the Young Journalists’ School going this year. When I was defending the project in the Organizing Committee last year (Youth Year) I had my doubts about whether it would work and whether the journalists themselves would support it, and so on. It turns out that there’s a huge interest in the School’s seminars and that the topic of journalistic ethics is a serious concern not just for readers and viewers, but for the journalists themselves too, and that the seminars need to be run on a regular basis.

Last year the project was a joint effort with the Russian Youth Affairs Committee. This year I’ve managed to organize the School using funds from my charity. Youth Year is over, but the project goes on, and I hope the seminars will continue for as long as there’s a need for them.

This year the Young Journalists’ School involved Sergey Brilev, presenter of the “Vesti v subbotu” news programme, Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the “Ekho Moskvy”radio station, Irina Petrovskaya, senior observer at the “Izvestiya” newspaper and “Ekho Moskvy”, Natalya Ivanova, literary critic and deputy editor-in-chief of the” Znamya” journal, and Darya Miloslavskaya, branch director at the International Centre of NGO Law in the Russian Federation.

Just like last year, the students spent Day 2 of the seminar at the REN TV television channel meeting the general director, the editor-in-chief and senior current affairs journalist Mikhail Osokin. Unfortunately, because of the tragic events in Katyn, Mariana Maksimovskaya wasn’t able to take part in the seminar.

The level of debate was quite professional and absolutely open. There was no separation of issues into politically correct and incorrect, and they talked about the things that are of concern to the students.

This openness helps both the experts and the journalists themselves to understand what makes youth journalism today tick and what issues they face. The dialogue with the kids was led not only by top-flight professionals, but by people who love their profession and devote themselves to it heart and soul. And this is very important. I think what we lack these days is not so much professional specialists, but people who love their profession, who care for it and its reputation.

These issues concern more than just Russian journalists. I got a letter from a girl in Kazakhstan who said she knew about our School and wanted to attend the seminar. She’s now here in Moscow. She told me how half the town came out to see her off (she’s from Karaganda) and how pleased her colleagues were for her. So it looks like the School’s growing in status )). By the way, this girl came up with the idea of inviting kids from the CIS countries to the Journalists’ School. I think it’s a great idea!


Aleksey Venediktov

Michail Osokin

Irina Petrovskaya

Students of Young Journalists School 2010

The meeting in St.Petersburg was very exciting: we were all keen to get back together and looking forward to more dialogue and debate, as well as an opportunity to tell about our publications.

I should point out that the workshop was conducted in interactive mode. In Moscow, we not only organized meetings with experts, managers from the media business and trips to a major TV station, but also constantly “monitored” students’ impressions and their suggestions on improving the workshop content. Thanks to this “monitoring” necessary adjustments were made to the St.Petersburg’s workshop. In particular, we took into account students’ interest in the online versions of the print media and invited to participate in the workshop Aleksander Aliev, director of Izvestiya’s internet project.

The second innovation – also prompted by the students’ own suggestions - was to include brief self-presentations. Each student was given the opportunity to present his or her publication to the other participants. This was a very interesting practical part of the overall workshop programme. In fact, on this occasion the practical part predominated. Together with Sergey Brilev (deputy head of the “Rossiya” TV channel) we analyzed the differences between newspapers and television, and with Andrey Kolesnikov (a special correspondent for Kommersant publishing house) continued to further talk about professional ethics in journalism. We also visited and learned about “Channel 5 – St.Petersburg” TV station and met its general director.

The theoretical part of the workshop was also very thorough. The students learned about the nuances of applying the advertizing laws in the media and about the findings of a public opinion poll by the Levada Centre on values in modern Russia, presented by Professor Aleksey Georgievich Levinson.

Every day of the workshop was absolutely packed with information and the participants were exceptionally enthusiastic – you got the impression they didn’t want to miss a single minute of our time together)). Nonetheless, we all had time to get to know one another, to make friends and swap telephone numbers and addresses. Each student was given a certificate as a memento of their participation in the School of Young Journalists. At the end, the kids thanked us for giving them the opportunity to understand their profession better, to appreciate its social significance and the abilities and opportunities they have. They all assured us that the meetings were absolutely essential for them as young journalists and that the School must continue into the future.

Well, I also very much hope that this project, which was launched during Youth Year, will continue into next year.

This workshop was a real event in my life and probably one of my biggest successes this year. To tell you about it is easy on the one hand, but difficult on the other: easy, because it all went well (perhaps even better than planned) and I’m really pleased; but difficult to pick out the key points from such a mass of impressions. It’s very hard, but let me try.

The school of professional development and ethics for young journalists is the second project that I proposed running as part of Youth Year, and one for which I am personal responsible. At the first meeting of the Youth Year organizing committee in February I put forward two projects (the first was about equipping computer rooms in boarding schools for young people). Both projects were approved and the preparatory work began.

Why journalists in particular? Well, I wanted to run a project in Youth Year that was relevant to all of us – something as broad as possible in terms of changing our lives for the better. I’m sure that all (or almost all) young people are “FOR” the positive things in life, but journalists have more opportunities to draw attention to these things. So the choice was made in favour of young media workers, and the topic of ethics and values was suggested by life itself.

To say that I was nervous before the workshop would be a huge understatement. Yes, everything was ready and organized, but I didn’t know the workshop would go, what the atmosphere would be like, or whether I would cope with the role of workshop leader.

Virtually all the invited journalists turned up – one hundred people from 43 regions. They were a bit shy at first, but once the introductions and the formal part were over, the workshop got down to business…And then something happened. It was as if some inner barriers had come down, like something had broken free. The participants all seemed to realize at once that this was not just another get-together, that it was all very serious, and that what was expected from them was not the usual platitudes, but genuine lively responses to the issues being discussed. It was as if everyone had caught the general mood at once and responded to it, to the purpose of the workshop, the idea behind it. They reacted to the experts’ sincerity and depth of understanding of the problems facing young journalists today, and appreciated their willingness to discuss the most complicated and difficult issues of contemporary life.


Later on, as we were saying goodbye, the journalists told me the time they had spent with us was like a breath of fresh air for them, because they had finally found a platform for discussing the problems and issues that concern them, and with such experts too! They made no secret of the fact that the workshop was a big event for them, though at first they had thought it was likely to be a case of reporting back on what they had done for Youth Year. And then, suddenly, they find themselves amidst this wonderful exchange of ideas and opinions! The level of debate was very high and professional. And there was so much attention paid to the participants themselves, to their work, their thoughts and desires. This was a total surprise for them. We all found exactly what we were looking for.

It was clear that the subject of media ethics and responsibility towards readers and viewers and issues around professional reputation are of genuine concern to young journalists. They even carried on arguing and exchanging views during the breaks )).



It was super that the Young Journalists’ School was able to bring in such well-known and respected members of the media community as cinema critic and media sociologist Daniil Dondurey, senior observer on the “Izvestiya” newspaper and “Ekho Moskvy” radio station Irina Petrovskaya, editor, journalist and president of the nonprofit Glasnost Defence Foundation Aleksey Simonov, and director of the Russian branch of the International Centre for NGO Darya Miloslavskaya.

On Day 2 of the workshop everyone went to visit REN TV. There they had the opportunity to see one of the country’s top TV channels in action, to meet and chat to senior managers, and to take part in master-classes by REN TV’s top news journalists Mikhail Osokin and Marianna Maksimovskaya.

The emotions and quality of debate during that workshop were simply amazing, and I got a great kick out of leading the process.

But the Moscow workshop (the School’s second cycle is planned for St.Petersburg in mid-December) was only the first step. It’s good that that step has been taken, but it needs to be followed up by more steps. I got so many reactions from various corners of the country, so many positive comments in the regional press, and so many letters from people who would really like to take part in the workshop but weren’t able to! The more I think about that meeting, the more I realize that we need to everything we can to make these workshops an annual event, for this Youth Year project to continue into the future.

This will be very difficult, especially at a time of crisis. This year, the project was supported and funded by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs: Agency staff helped prepare and run the workshop. It’s too early to say how things will pan out next year. Whether we’ll manage to find opportunities to keep the Young Journalists’ School going is a big question. Bit I’m going to work on this and make every effort to ensure that this first step is not the last.

That’s it for now – see you in Petersburg!

Guys, I’ve seen all your comments and questions on the Young Journalists’ School on the website and in the LiveJournal and will try to answer them.

So, taking them one at a time: The Young Journalists’ School is now up and running. Unfortunately, applications for places in the school this year are now closed.

A competition was held amongst young regional journalists, and the 100 winners took part in the School’s first workshop in Moscow from 13th to 15th November. The participants in the Moscow workshop will also go to the workshop in St.Petersburg, as they are both parts of the same project cycle.

The Young Journalists’ School will probably become an annual event, however. If we have the opportunity and decide to continue holding these workshops in the future I’ll definitely write about it on the website so that you can send in your applications.

At one of the meetings of the Youth Year Organizing Committee I suggested organizing workshops on journalistic ethics for young journalists. This wasn’t something that I just plucked out of thin air: the idea actually came to me when I saw the state the media are in these days and read some statistics showing that people in our country have less and less trust in journalists. This trend can only be a cause for concern, because I believe that the journalistic profession is one of the most important in a democratic country, especially one in the process of building a civil society.

The Committee supported my initiative, and the first Young Journalists’ School workshop begins tomorrow. It will be held in Moscow from 13th to 15th November. The workshops will be attended by 100 people from more than 40 regions who won their places through competitive selection. The School plans to run two 2 -day workshops by the end of 2009, the second to be held in December in St.Petersburg.

Once the workshops are over I will definitely let you known how it all went and try to download some photographs.

I quite often get letters expressing complaints, criticism or resentment over the fact that nothing is being done for young people. These letters are mostly from small towns and villages, where change - or lack of change - is more obvious than amongst the bustle of big cities. It’s true that there are situations where intervention is required, where deputy’s requests need to be written etc., but still, in my view, most negative emotions are the result of a passive expectation that youth issues will somehow be solved. So I want to give you a piece of advice: you shouldn’t just wait for someone to come along with a solution - you have to get out there, show some initiative and come up with some ideas of your own. Especially since the young people in any town or village know better than anyone else what they need for a normal and interesting life, for development and education. Before complaining that something isn’t working you have to try to achieve something for yourself. And if you get blocked or obstructed at the local level you have to fight for your initiatives higher up, such as by asking a State Duma deputy for help. The main thing is to be proactive.

As it was me in my capacity as a Duma deputy who suggested the idea of holding a Youth Year in Russia, I’m now getting masses of questions about Youth Year projects and events, about where you can find information on the Youth Year programme, and lots of other subjects. So I’ve decided to describe in more detail how these Youth Year projects are going and who’s responsible for them.
The Youth Year programme has already been finalized. It consists of about 60 events that will be funded from the federal budget. These include projects and events to support young talent, students, young researchers, journalists, entrepreneurs and invalids, as well as projects focusing on art, education, sport, tourism, rehabilitation, careers advice and many other areas.
The Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation is responsible for all Youth Year activities. So you can get information on the programme as well as news and other Youth Year events on the website of the Ministry’s Youth Policy and Public Relations Department at www.depmolpol.ru. Another source of information is the dedicated Youth Year website www.godmol.ru. Various Russian regions also have plans for their own local Youth Year events.
The Youth Year programme was drawn up in late 2008 - early 2009 and was finally approved at the first meeting of the steering committee on 19 February 2009. Incidentally, at the steering committee meeting I also proposed two of my own projects. The first is aimed at giving young invalids better opportunities for communication and education by setting up Internet rooms in care homes for young people with physical disabilities. It will also involve teaching them to use computers, to communicate and work via the Internet. The second project is a series of public-education seminars for young journalists, at which the kids can meet well-known people from the local media and discuss journalistic culture and values, as well as visiting the editorial offices of national newspapers and TV stations.

So I am responsible for two Youth Year projects and I will definitely report back on their results at the end of the year.

Where did the idea of making 2009 Young Year come from? In fact, the idea came to me all by itself. I think that after Year of the Child and Year of the Family, Youth Year would be worthwhile and logical continuation. These are great opportunities to get politicians, the public, the media, the business community – in fact, you could say the whole country – thinking about the subject of family, children, and now – youth. I’m sure that Youth Year will provide that extra boost and produce new opportunities for some innovative youth support and development projects. It’ll also help to generate and run youth support projects across Russia and raise awareness in every region of our huge country.
When I first came up with the idea of Youth Year I spoke about it to my Duma colleagues and they were supportive. In early June, together with deputies Ildar Gilmutdinov, Arsen Fadzaev and Sergey Belokonev, I tabled the suggestion for debate in the Duma.
On 27 June our initiative was given unanimous support by the Chamber of Deputies. Of course we’d very much hoped that there wouldn’t be many objections, but we didn’t expect the ENTIRE Duma to vote in favour (only one deputy abstained). This is fantastic! We now await the President’s decision.
This story has convinced me yet again that if you really want something and try hard to make it happen, then things usually work out! Don’t be afraid to believe in yourself and your ideas. Don’t give up on your plans and don’t think that somebody else will do things for you!
PS. I’m pleased to announce that on 18 September Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev supported the State Duma’s initiative to declare 2009 Youth Year, and signed a decree “On Holding Youth Year in the Russian Federation” http://www.kabaeva-alina.com/press/ne...?year=2008

I decided to list all the laws and regulations on youth policy in Russia to give you an idea of what exists and what’s been done so far. There aren’t actually that many. Below is a list with a brief description of each.

1. Federal Law On Public Associations, which says that citizens over the age of 14 can be members and participants of young people’s public associations;
2. Federal Law No.98-FZ of 28 June 1995 On State Support for Young People’s and Children’s Public Associations” (amended 21 March 2002, 29 June and 22 August 2004);
3. Decree of the RF President No.1075 of 16 September 1992 On Priority Measures in the Sphere of State Youth Policy (amended 12 April 1999);
4. Decree of the RF President No.727 of 16 May 1996 On State Support Measures for Public Associations Engaged in Military-Patriotic Upbringing of Young People (amended 21 April 1997);
5. RF Government Resolution No.551 of 24 July 2000 On Military-Patriotic Youth and Children’s Associations;
6. State Youth Policy Strategy in the Russian Federation (approved by decision of the RF Government No.1760-r of 18 December 2006);

In addition to the above, from 2001 to 2005 there was a federal purpose-oriented programme called Youth of Russia, which was approved by RF Government Resolution No.1015 of 27 December 2000 (amended 29 May 2002 and 6 September 2004).

Before the State Duma Youth Committee was set up youth policy was the responsibility of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, which also drafted all the youth policy regulations still in force today.
The RF State Committee for Youth Affairs was formed in September 2007 by RF President Decree No.1274 of 24 September 2007, and the Committee’s Terms of Reference were approved by RF Government Resolution No.706 of 27 October 2007.
The Terms of Reference define the committee as “the federal executive agency that determines state youth policy and legal regulations in this sphere, provides state services and manages state property in the sphere of state youth policy, establishes together with public organizations and movements representing the interests of youth conditions to ensure a healthy lifestyle for young people, their moral and patriotic upbringing, and fulfillment of their professional potential, and coordinates activities by regional executive agencies of the Russian Federation in this sphere”.
The committee will be guided by documents produced by the Ministry of Education and Science and is as yet unable to put forward any proposals of its own in this area.

You’ve probably read about my involvement in the Heroes Against Heroine project – a joint campaign by the Rosbalt news agency and the United Russia party.
On 29 February I was invited to a presentation of a documentary film called There will be no Happy End – a film about the harmful effects of drugs and their influence on our lives and society. That short film made a profound impression on me that stays with you for a long time – something you often return in your thoughts.
Drugs are the WEAK LINK for today’s youth. You know what makes human beings different from all other beings on earth? The fact that God gave us the ability to choose. Each of us, sooner or later, is faced with the problem of choice. And each decides for himself whether to choose drugs, disease, false reality, suffering for our loved ones and friends…
Or to choose a life WITHOUT DRUGS, full of feelings and emotions, so you can live life to the full, get an education, make a career, get married and start a family, and fulfill yourself as an individual. I made my choice!

I AM AGAINST drugs and PRO life and health. I choose a future! How about you?