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Educating Russians abroad
In 2014, the Russian government launched the ‘Global Education’ programme of postgraduate education abroad.
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Russian schools excel in new university rankings
Moscow State University (MSU) tops the rankings in a listing of schools in “emerging Europe” and Central Asia just released by the higher education consultants QS Quacquarelli Symonds.
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Teaching orthodoxy in Russian schools
Orthodox ideology is being rushed into the Russian school curriculum – in the interests of nationalism.
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Russia: Looking at history as a continuation of politics
The leading Bolshevik historian Mikhail Pokrovsky famously defined history as “politics projected into the past.” Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is taking that concept, and running with it.
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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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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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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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