In Russia, the authorities are reducing access to higher education while simultaneously expanding incentives for joining the army, effectively pushing young people to choose military service over studies. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation of the NSDC of Ukraine (CCD), as conveyed by UNN.
In Russia, access to humanitarian and social education is being purposefully reduced — instead, benefits are being expanded for those who go to fight against Ukraine,
The authorities have cut 47,000 paid spots in universities for "unnecessary" specialties — law, economics, psychology, and management. Simultaneously, the cost of tuition has increased by an average of 10-30%.
In parallel, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin signed a law on special quotas for widows and relatives of fallen soldiers: university admission without exams and free preparatory courses. The logic is simple — dying at the front is more profitable than studying.
The Kremlin has finally shifted higher education into a mode of serving the war. Russian youth are being deprived of a future, artificially driven into conditions where the only available social elevator remains signing a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, while the students themselves are viewed exclusively as expendable material to replenish the losses of the occupying army,