Eastern Europe
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School-less in Kyiv
Years of sprawl, along with developers’ empty pledges to build private schools, are creating a crisis in the city’s suburbs. Second in an occasional series.
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What the FSB is Doing in Russian Universities
In Soviet times, the KGB kept a close watch on intellectuals – they might turn out to be dissidents. Today, the FSB still skulks on university corridors…
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This project is helping France unlearn its stereotypes about Romania
Misinformation abounds in France when it comes to Romania, and the Newsroum project, an online initiative that sought to present different perspectives on Romania than have been shown in France’s mainstream media, wanted to do something about it.
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Russia: Muscovites embrace learning Central Asian languages
Hear a man speaking Tajik on Moscow’s fashionable Krymskaya Embankment, and you could be forgiven for thinking he’s migrant worker on break from one of the many construction sites in the area.
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Learning Mobility Scoreboard Report: Member States must try harder
A new report by the Eurydice Network, Towards a Mobility Scoreboard: Conditions for Learning abroad in Europe, highlights unequal opportunities, uneven commitments and a complex range of obstacles to learner mobility across Member States.
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Crimea: One for the history books
Russia has already added information about its annexation of Crimea to a school history textbook with the version presented just as doctored as the results of the “referendum” used to claim overwhelming support for the move.
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To modernize economy, Russia offers scholarships abroad
The Russian government has unveiled a program that will allow Russian students to undertake graduate study at top foreign universities free of charge.
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Putin’s dissertation and the revenge of RuNet
While increasing regulation and manipulation are restricting Russia’s online space, activists are still finding innovative ways to use it to uncover corruption, such as a site uncovering plagiarism among Russian politicians.
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Russia’s media crackdown spills into academia
The crackdown on Russia’s free press is as old as Vladimir Putin’s presidency. In the last two years, since Putin returned to the Kremlin for a third go, the process has accelerated.
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Educating Orthodoxy
The Russian Orthodox Church has been expanding its educational activities to include not only seminaries but universities offering a wide range of courses.
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