That's where we stand

There are neither personnel nor funds to teach military training, the head of the department, Lyubov Kezina, said yesterday. The capital prefers the history of religion to the foundations of Orthodoxy. And this year Moscow schoolchildren will be able to take the Unified State Exam in only two subjects: Russian and history. Exact sciences are excluded, and this despite the fact that 50% of the places in the capital’s universities are going to be given to students of the State University. It’s still strange: everyone seems to have recognized that the exact sciences are more amenable to testing by tests, rather than the humanities, and now...