Daria Nevskaya, the creator of mobbingu.net, gave an interview to Novaya Gazeta. Baltic States” in Riga, by writer Maria Boteva. We publish the full article.

How should a teenager at risk and who has been bullied behave? How can a teenager help himself if he has moved to a new school and started being bullied? How do you prevent bullying in the classroom? How to survive mobbing and bullying without breaking down?

In any class, there is a division into groups or groupings. These groups compete with each other and harass guys from other groups. But even within the groups themselves, there is a hierarchy that is a breeding ground for mobbing. Children often stay out of groups, but then they need to have a very strong immune system to determine their individual behavior and not meet the requirements of either group.

How do you learn to resist teacher bullying? Teacher bullying is very common in modern schools. Teachers sometimes bully children, insulting and humiliating their human dignity, but sometimes bullying can be “quiet” bullying, but even more harmful than “loud” bullying.

What can society and the state do to prevent a tragedy like the one that happened in Ivanteyevka on September 5 from happening again? What can adults do to prevent children from being left alone with their grief and fear? Suggestions from the site's creator Daria Nevskaya.

This summer, on a hot sunny day, I was walking with my niece in the park. The weather was great, but her mood, on the contrary, left much to be desired. Nika, that's her name, told me about her school problems. Her lips were shaking every now and then, and her velvety gray eyes filled with tears. Nicky's stories, one after another, reopened my old wounds. In each of her stories, I recognized myself and my despair and understood that my niece needed to be saved.

This is a true story about being victims of teenage bullying by a student of mine. She has long since left her hometown and is studying at a Moscow university, but she still cannot free herself from the psychological trauma she sustained at school. I asked her to write about her personal experience of mobbing to help herself and others in a similar situation.

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