Russian TV Show about Schools

The Russian Media is all stirrep up by a new TV show, broadcasted on Channel One Russia, National TV.  Shkola, the Russian word for school, is its title. It is controverse because it is touching upon school issues like sex, alkoholism, abuse and violence-tough areas, of which people and conservative authorities did not want to hear anything for a long time.
The Russian school had been a traditional, sacred place where children were taught big values set by the literary elite such as Pushkin and Tolstoy. Problems were not seen and denied. The producer of Channel One Russia, Igor Tolstunyev, wants to wake people up and sharpen awareness. Therefore, in the series actors are mixed with real students; they are as unadorned as one can be in front of a camera; nothing is glamorised or glossed over. They are simply authentic.
One episode, for example, deals with the issue of gang kidnapping, blind racism and abuse when Wadim (9th grade, Russian) accuses his fellow student Timur (from the Caucasus) of having kidnapped his younger brother Fedya (Russian, Skinhead). Turns out though that Fedya just ran away from home because his father (Russian, alcoholic) beat him up. (Photo by Channnel One Russia)