By Beckie Smith. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a long-awaited decree to provide state funding for 1,000 postgraduate students to study overseas every year for the next three years, provided they return to Russia to work in the country upon completion. Funding for the Global Education programme may be available later this year, although the decree allows the Russian government a three-month window from the date of the signing last December to finalise details of the programme. More...