“The 2025 admissions campaign accepted about 1.42 million freshmen, 568 thousand of them were enrolled in budget-funded places,” the ministry said. The Ministry of Education and Science also said that the share of young scientists in Russia in 2025 reached 44.1%.

The phenomenon of the Cheremsha meme is simply a new packaging of an old phenomenon, which is similar to Soviet children's folklore, Tarkhanova, an expert at the Ministry of Education, told TASS. According to Tarkhanova, the main problem is the publicity of memes. Previously, children's folklore remained “underground” and rarely reached adults.

According to the survey, every second (50%) respondent cannot stay focused on work or study—they check their phone on the phone several times an hour. Another 28% do this about once an hour. Only 35% of young people can watch a 30-minute video at normal speed. 5% always watch such videos in fast forward or rewind. 35% of respondents noted that a couple of times a week they catch themselves thinking that they don’t remember what they just read, and 19% face this every day.

The ministry plans to introduce two modules - a basic one, which will be the same for everyone in the first year, and a professional one, which will differ depending on the student’s field of study. The Ministry of Education and Science said that the successful implementation of the new model will require large-scale retraining of teachers and a system of continuous professional development.

In 2025, the technical school became a division of the Arkhangelsk Polytechnic College. It was assumed that those who had already enrolled would be able to complete their studies, but in May students were informed of the intention to close the technical school. According to Lantratova, parents of students approached her - they said that the technical school in Pinega is the only place where children from the Pinega, Leshukon and Mezen districts can receive secondary vocational education.

“Diploma theses no longer perform the function they performed in higher education 10–15–20 years ago,” Falkov said at the “AI Technologies in Higher Education” forum in Tyumen. According to Falkov, the format of educational work will change taking into account the development of digital technologies. In May, Falkov already said that the development of AI could lead to the abandonment of written theses in favor of an oral exam.

Is it normal to go to the First Movement forums, take government grants and work in student groups, but at the same time support the opposition and criticize the authorities? Before Youth Day, “7x7” talked with young activists. They told us what they thought about help from the state, where the “red lines” were for them, and whether they were ready to take budget money for their projects themselves.

This proposal was made by Deputy Secretary of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Vladislav Grib. “I think it should be increased to 40 years. I justify this by the fact that the retirement age has been raised. But young people stand still,” said Grib. In May, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family Protection, Issues of Paternity, Maternity and Childhood, Nina Ostanina, made the same proposal.

According to Losev, without explaining the spiritual aspect of “the concepts of ‘life’ and ‘human dignity’,” a secular person may develop “a completely different perception of these values.” “The foundation of these lessons in question should be religious understanding, and then scientific conclusions take on a different meaning, they have a spiritual basis and are perceived differently,” Losev said.

The press service of the stores stated that purchasing these products is now “inappropriate” “due to the unjustified increase in selling prices.” The press service also said that there was “just over one month” of products left in stock. For the same reasons, Pyaterochka and Perekrestok stopped purchasing Mars products in July 2025—Snickers, Twix, Bounty, Mars, Milky Way, Korkunov, M&Ms, Skittles, Orbit. But already in September 2025, stores began purchasing Mars products again.

Vice-Rector for Digital Transformation and Information Security Vladimir Starostenko said that “Max” is “subject to use” by all employees of St. Petersburg State University, in accordance with the order. At the same time, whether to register from a personal device and SIM card is at the “employee’s discretion.” Reimbursement for expenses for the use of personal devices “is not provided” by St. Petersburg State University, as is the provision of a corporate phone and SIM card, Starostenko said.

Every year Rosmolodezh holds grant competitions. Money is given out for a variety of projects - from volunteer and educational initiatives to festivals, media projects and “patriotic” events. The winners of the competitions receive money from the state budget and are required to report how they spent it and what exactly they did.

The corresponding order was published on the portal for publishing legal acts. Polosin has been working as vice-rector at RANEPA since 2023, at the same time he was appointed curator of the creation of the course “Fundamentals of Russian Statehood” for universities. He also holds the position of scientific director of the propaganda project “Russian DNA”.

One of the members of the M&A group (Merelin & Nastya), Maria Sorokina, was included in the list of winners of the first season of the Rosmolodezh.Grants competition, discovered “Caution, news.” The grant says that the group received 851,000 rubles for the competition track “# protect” for a “patriotic project to film a video clip” for the song “I, You, We!” The text contains the following lines: “Don’t be afraid, step forward! It's your time to take a chance!

Nikitin said that the issue of personnel training in the changed reality is one of the department’s main priorities. He also said that on the basis of the Russian University of Transport, “new specialties and educational programs in advanced fields are being developed”, which will be introduced into all “industry universities”: “These are intelligent transport systems, digital technologies, artificial intelligence.”