Ustenina proposed to return training and production plants to schools in order to cure young people from "everyday disability".
The chairperson of the State Duma Committee for the Protection of the Family, Nina Ustenina, believes that young people should be taught work skills, as in the Soviet Union, where high school students in training and manufacturing plants mastered the professions of machinist, mechanic, seamstress and cook. The reason was a study according to which almost 80% of Russians from the age of 18 to 35 are not able to hang a shelf by themselves.
Ustanina said young people "trust the Internet more," and the blackouts showed that "we need to get back to real life."