A Belarusian activist informed schools in Voronezh that teachers should make patriotic foil helmets that block radiation from a NATO satellite. Seven schools were destroyed.
Pictures of Russian teachers in tinfoil hats have spread over the weekend on the social media services X and Telegram.
It is about a Belarusian activist Vladislav Bohanin joke.
Bohan contacted schools in the Voronezh region in southern Russia and presented himself as a representative of the ruling United Russia party.
Bohan informed the schools that teachers should organize a patriotic workshop during which the teachers would make a “patriotic foil helmet”.
According to Bohan, the purpose of the helmet was “to protect oneself from possible radiation from satellites of the military alliance NATO”.
Bohan sent teachers instructions for making tinfoil hats, which were created with the help of an artificial intelligence program.
Seven schools in the Voronezh region were vandalized by a Belarusian activist, a Russian opposition newspaper Medusa reported on Sunday.
Also German Bild has reported on tinfoil hats.
This is how the Ministry of Education of the Voronezh region reacted to the prank
According to the Ministry of Education of the Voronezh region, the prank happened already in July.
According to Meduza, the representative of the administration stated that the authorities were pleased with the teachers’ creativity and patriotic attitude. However, the Ministry of Education was disappointed that so many teachers fell into obvious trouble.
A representative of the Ministry of Education stated that disinformation training was organized for teachers in the Voronezh region after the incident.
Belarusian Vladislav Bohan has organized pranks for Russian teachers before.
In 2022, he approached the management of the school in the city of Klin, located in the Moscow region, in the role of a party representative and demanded that the school organize talks, during which the teachers had to present a poster with a Nazi slogan.
The prank went through and Bohan presented the pictures In his Telegram.
In 2023 Bohan got it The management of schools in the Arkhangelsk region to campaign for themselves as United Russia’s candidate in the elections, although Bohan was not even a candidate in the elections.