Vladimir Putin wants children as young as seven to be taught Russian values as part of a wider programme of "patriotic" education.
As of September 5, kids will be forced to sit through hours of "conversations about important things", according to Sergei Novikov, who heads up the Kremlin's social projects wing.
The curriculum would be focused on societal values in line with Russia's national security strategy, he told the state-run Tass news agency.
Some schools will roll out the discussions as early as this month.
Novikov, the presidential directorate for social projects, is working to realise the leader's goals to “strengthen the spiritual and moral foundations of Russian society”.
This includes improving “young people’s patriotic education”, according to the Kremlin's website.

Non state-run media outlets in Russia have reported on cases of teachers claiming to have been intimidated into supporting the war.
Educators have further reported being punished, fined and dismissed for making comments against the Kremlin's official narrative.
Since and preceding the invasion in February, Moscow has veiled the true nature of its military presence in Ukraine, calling it a "special military operation" to "denazify" the country from its overlords instead.
Within a couple of months of the war starting, Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov said the ministry would be rolling out mandatory history lesson for students as young as seven.

The courses will focus on denying claims of Russian brutality against countries like Ukraine and Belarus.
The history course books will also be updated to include the Kremlin's narrative on its "special military operation".
Pupils will soon be asked to attend daily ceremonies in which the Russian flag is raised - an initiative set to cost the Kremlin £2.8 million in supplying the flags.
Another change soon to be implemented is that Russian schools will play the national anthem at the start of the new school year.

Last month Putin set up a modern youth organisation similar to the The Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, known commonly as the Young Pioneers, a mass youth club in the Soviet Union for kids and teens between the ages of nine and 14.
The Kremlin has denied its new club is an attempt to revive the organisation - which ran from 1922 to 1991 and was largely responsible for indoctrinating the state into communist ideology.
In speeches, Putin has repeatedly revived Soviet era language and spoken romantically of communist-era Russia.
The Kremlin has also compared the Ukrainian invasion to the Soviet's victory over Nazi Germany.