Russian State Duma proposes a ban on foreign education for children of state officials
The draft law prohibiting children of state officials to study abroad has been submitted for consideration to the State Duma (Russian parliament), as reported by Rosbalt. If the draft law is adopted in the State Duma, under-age children of separate officials and public, civil and municipal servants will not be allowed to study abroad.
An exception will be made for cases where parents have been working abroad for more than a year, as the explanatory note to the project states. The author of the document is the Deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Valery Rashkin. Rashkin stated that he wants to end the practice of parent-officials and top managers of State companies and corporations send their children to school abroad.
“This impedes the formation of genuine national managerial elite in the country, flushes out staff, contributes to consolidation of social inequality in Russia and separation of the governing class from the people,” Rashkin said. Receiving education in branches of Russian educational organizations abroad would be admissible. Rashkin also proposes to extend the application of this draft law to legal relatives after January 1, 2017.