The President has signed a law on entry to university from college without the Unified State Exam, a possibility that is now retained only for applicants to a related specialism

The President has signed a law on entry to university from college without the Unified State Exam, a possibility that is now retained only for applicants to a related specialism. Until now, universities had the right to admit college graduates on the strength of their own internal entrance tests, regardless of the applicant's original field of study. From now on, to be admitted without the Unified State Exam, the two fields will have to match

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

The President has signed a law on entry to university from college without the Unified State Exam, a possibility that is now retained only for applicants to a related specialism

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s