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There's also Kumir, which is an educational programming language used in Russian schools

Hm. That must be new, I was taught Turbo Pascal

Somewhat new, or at least wasn't used in schools until fairly recently. It's a programming environment with tools like Turtle Graphics built in, specifically for teaching the basics of coding. There are even some tasks in ЕГЭ for it.

https://www.niisi.ru/kumir/

The website screenshot shows it on Windows XP though, don't know if it actually existed back then or if it's just typical Russian institutions still using Windows XP.

In fact, the language itself dates to rhe 1980s I think. No idea whether its use in schools is recent though.

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