Sergey Guriev, Rector of the New Economic School: “Any law, even a very good one, can be misused…” I support the law. Another thing, it is not known whether it will be well used. Many critics have not even read the law, and many of those who have read it see only the bad in it, a priori believing that everything will be implemented in Russia in the worst possible way. I do not see any additional risks from the adoption of the law.

Discussion of the Law on Education On December 14, the State Duma in the second reading will consider the education law - one of the most violently discussed bills of recent times The teacher-professor environment is seething: the press and the Internet publish open letters of indignant doctors of sciences and teachers without degrees who prophesy the catastrophe of Russian education and demand the resignation of Minister Dmitry Livanov.

Petr Safronov, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of the Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation: “The legislator is trying to create common rules of the game” One more step has been taken towards the recognition that the model of higher education that existed in the Soviet Union and was inextricably linked with the Soviet ideal of the welfare state has died.

Alexander Kovaldzhi, Deputy Director for Science of the Lyceum "Second School": "A teacher turns into a bureaucrat" The authors of the draft Law on Education decided that all schools can and should be equally good, which means, in their opinion, that lyceums and gymnasiums should be liquidated.