Russia will open a branch of Moscow State University in Syria
Russia is negotiating the opening of a branch of Moscow State University in Syria, Izvestia writes today with reference to data from the former head of the FSB Sergei Stepashin.
“The Syrians are interested in building a Russian higher education institution. Russia never had such in the SAR, there were American, English, French. We are currently looking into this issue. Bashar al-Assad allocated us land in Damascus in a good location,” said Stepashin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
In 2014, in Palestinian Bethlehem on Vladimir Putin Street, a Russian school was inaugurated - the first in the Middle East in the last hundred years.
Also in 2014, Syria included the Russian language in the school curriculum - starting from the seventh grade, Pushkin’s language is taught as a second foreign language (English as the first). Today, more than 12 thousand young citizens of the republic are studying Russian.
There are nine public universities and over ten private universities in Syria. The higher education system suffered greatly during the war years - professors and students fled the combat zone.
A Russian university will be in demand in the region, and not only among Syrians—residents of neighboring Lebanon may also come to Damascus for a quality education.
Foreign branches of Moscow State University operate in Nur-Sultan, Dushanbe, Baku, Tashkent, Yerevan, and Slovenian Koper. A joint university of Moscow State University and Beijing Polytechnic Institute has been operating in Shenzhen, China since 2017. In 2020, a branch of the Russian university will open in the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan, Osh.
Until 2014, the branch of Moscow State University in Sevastopol was also considered foreign.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.