For reunification of families

The Presidential Administration recommends Russian officials to return to the country the children studying abroad. It is reported by Znak.com with reference to several sources that have encountered such a situation.

At the same time, it is proposed not to wait for the end of study, but to transfer children to Russian universities. Parents of officials and deputies living abroad should also return to their homeland.

The recommendation applies to civil servants and deputies of all levels, as well as employees of state corporations. As one of the sources of the publication said, the stay of the closest relatives abroad became complicated by a further career. In recent months, he became aware of several such cases.

“In such a situation, time is proposed to resolve the issue, however, in the event of a refusal to do this hiring, which the applicant for the place in the civil service was counting on,” the official of the official quoted the publication.

As a source close to the presidential administration noted, not the last role in the resignation of the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Pavel Astakhov was played by the fact that his son was studying abroad.

Meanwhile, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that he did not know about the recommendation to officials to return relatives to Russia. “I hear the first time,” he answered the request to comment on this message.

In April 2013, the State Duma rejected the proposal of o /politics/russia/parliaments/duma/m.213906.html damping to children of high -ranking officials to study abroad. The first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on education Communist Oleg Smolin made such an initiative. In his opinion, holding government posts should teach their children in Russia. The ban on teaching children abroad, the deputy said at a meeting of the lower house, would allow those who make decisions, firstly, it is better to know what is happening in the domestic education system, and secondly, to take care of it more. The amendments were proposed to make a law on the possession of foreign accounts to the law.

Earlier, it has been repeatedly reported that relatives of high -ranking Russian officials prefer to live abroad. So, according to the founder of the Foundation for the Corruption of Alexei Navalny, allthe children and grandchildren of the ex-head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin live outside Russia .