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The good, and bad, of being a student in Russia

April 27, 2012 Cody White
Cody compares student life in the U.S. with what he learned about the Russian system from his experience as a foreign exchange student in Moscow

Russians around the world take dictation

April 27, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva
A program aimed at promoting literacy among Russian speakers, brought together 15,000 people in 85 cities across the world for a writing exercise

Total dictation in numbers

April 27, 2012 Niyaz Karim
On April 21, an exercise called “total dictation” challenged Russians around the world to test their language skills

Medvedev's address: Nice words, little action

April 26, 2012 Ian Pryde
In possibly his last address to the State Council, Dmitry Medvedev announced big plans for Russia’s economic future, but as usual, the key lies in implementation

Mum’s the word for tip-top tuition

April 25, 2012 Maria Agranovich, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
More and more parents are opting to educate their children at home believing it will be better for them than going to school

Students launched the second round of the U.S.-Russia reset

April 24, 2012 Pavel Koshkin
Russia and American participants in the 2012 SURF conference recently completed the second of two sessions at Stanford University

Stalin notebooks: Internet meme, or provocation?

April 24, 2012 Larisa Khudikova, Vesti.ru
School notebooks depicting Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin touched off a public scandal

Russia monetizes its innovative potential

March 30, 2012 Anna Andrianova
On the last week of March, a team from the Skolkovo Foundation came to Silicon Valley for the eight annual Global Technology Symposium

Made-to-order employees

March 26, 2012 Alexei Boyarsky, Kommersant-Dengi
More and more firms – both Russian and foreign – place instructors in Russian universities to make sure that graduates are prepared for the workforce

State companies to transfer 1 percent of innovation budgets to Skolkovo

March 23, 2012 Ksenia Dokukina, Maksim Tovkailo, Tatyana Martynova, Vedomosti.ru
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology plans to establish Russia’s biggest endowment fund, projected at 16.5 billion rubles ($560 million) in 2012 alone

Russia may benefit from the brain drain

March 22, 2012 Oleg Alekseev
The brain drain problem is an indisputable fact, but we should not try to stop it.

Skolkovo as a barrier to the brain drain

March 22, 2012 Pavel Tarasenko
The Russian government believes that the Skolkovo Innovation Center is capable of slowing the brain drain problem which the country is faced with

Russia's young scientists get more exposure

March 20, 2012 Sofya Raevskaya
The Theory and Practice (T&P) master classes are one of Russia’s most popular ways to share knowledge

New grants revitalize Russian science

March 20, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva, Combined report
The Megagrant project, an ambitious initiative of Russia's Ministry of Education, indicates that the authorities make an attempt to prevent the brain drain

Catching up with Western standards of education

March 6, 2012 Olga Gorshkova
RBTH got in touch with former Minister of Education Vladimir Filippov to discuss how Russia has been adjusting to the Bologna Process

More or less a specialist?

March 6, 2012 Pavel Koshkin, Olga Gorshkova
Russia’s accession to the Bologna System has been a controversial process. The country is still facing some obstacles in adjusting to the World standards

Skolkovo makes its pitch in the UK

February 20, 2012 David Lennon
In its best-attended roadshow event to date, Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation promoted itself in mid-February in London

Russian Business Week takes on Russia in the global economy

February 17, 2012 Darya Alyukova
Investors and pundits gathered in London recently to discuss Russia’s economic development and how it will or will not be affected by the changing political climate

“We need a new economy”

January 31, 2012 Vladimir Putin, Special to Vedomosti
Russia beyond the Headlines publishes the abridged version of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's recent article, which appeared in the business daily Vedomosti.

Building the engine of progress from the idea up

January 26, 2012 Alexander Vostrov
The founders of Russia’s innovation city are already winning the hearts and minds of innovators
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