Costumes of American superheroes to be banned in kindergartens of occupied Crimea during holidays

Crimean pre-school educational facilities have "imposed sanctions" on Hollywood superheroes. The management of kindergartens in the Russia-occupied peninsula banned the parents from choosing the costumes of Batman, Superman, Spiderman, minions etc. for their children for New Year celebrations. Instead, the residents of Crimea were advised to "get inspired by Russian fairy tales" and choose the costumes of bohatiri (heroes with superhuman strength - ed.) and Snehurka (the granddaughter of Ded Moroz, the Russian analogue of Santa Claus - ed.).

Source: Crimea. Realii with reference to Russian media

"It is our first year in kindergarten but we were forbidden from dressing as Spiderman or anything similar. Only the characters of Russian folklore fairy tales [are allowed].

All the girls, for instance, will be snowflakes," a Russian media outlet cites a mom from the city of Kerch. "American superheroes are not compatible with the leitmotif of children's celebrations and Russian folklore fairy tales," the committee of one of the pre-school educational facilities explained to the Kerch Today Telegram channel. Some kindergartens went even further: according to the scenarios of their celebrations, girls do not just have to dress as "Russian beauties" - their costumes must include the elements of Gzhel, a kind of Russian folk paintings in particular azure blue colours.

"Some kindergartens told the parents directly: it must not be just a Russian beauty with red flowers, but the one with blue Gzhel ornaments specifically. Boys must be dressed in Old Russian blue kosovorotka (a traditional Russian shirt)," reveals the firm which rents out costumes. The so-called Ministry of Education of Crimea claims that it did not give official recommendations to kindergartens, and this decision has allegedly been made independently.

Background: Russians started to denounce images of rainbow to security structures since it reminds them of LGBT+.

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