Moscow's campaign for students to sign army contracts comes as the Kremlin seeks to sustain its war effort for a fifth year.

Russia is doubling the amount of military training time in high schools, with new lessons on drones and field exercises.

In 2025, Russia allocated more than 5,000 state-funded university spots for African students after receiving more than 40,000 applications. According to Russia's cultural diplomacy agency ...

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Russia’s Science and Higher Education Minister Valery Falkov has announced that four subjects will become mandatory for all ...

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Moscow ― Students across Russia are being offered large financial incentives to join drone units fighting in Ukraine as operators and engineers, while companies in Russia's central Ryazan region have ...

April 19, 2026: In northeastern Russia has established a school to teach teenage boys how to operate and maintain drones. There was also instruction on how to use naval drones that operate underwater.

Russian universities are promising free tuition and up to $70,000 to students who are willing to serve as drone pilots in the Russian military for a year—all while claiming students can avoid the risk ...

“All the ‘top’ people in the university are now calling on students to go to war.” “Throughout the uni, there are posters about the UAV forces literally everywhere.” “The pressure is colossal.” These ...