Kremlin Stalls Study Abroad Plan for Russian Students

A program to send Russian students to study abroad – one of former President Dmitry Medvedev’s policy priorities – has been put on hold by the current Kremlin administration, Kommersant daily reported Tuesday.
Under the plan, the state was to foot the bill for 3,000 students to spend up to three years studying at the world’s top colleges and universities before returning to Russia to work in their chosen field for another three years, the report said.
But the presidential administration criticized the program for choosing to invest in managers rather than researchers or engineers, the newspaper said, citing an internal memo from the Kremlin. More...