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29.04.2015 12:00 / TASS
Moscow State Enters World’s Top 50 Universities
Lomonosov Moscow State University has improved its standing in the global universities rating published by Britain’s QS rating agency – this year, MSU has cracked the Top 50 in four categories.
20.08.2014 13:35 / Interfax
Russian School Kids Beat French in Financial Literacy, Says Research
Russian schoolchildren show better financial literacy levels than their French counterparts, say the results of Promotion of Financial Literacy and Education project, launched by Minfin and World Bank in 2011.
28.03.2014 09:36 / RIA Novosti
Duma to Consider Extended Visa Terms
The Government has introduced to the State Duma a bill on extended Russian visa terms and simplified visa procedure, the Cabinet website announced Friday.
23.01.2014 17:33 / vedomosti.ru
Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev said that Russia may get tourist police in the coming years.
17.12.2013 18:28 / vedomosti.ru
Russian University Makes BRICS Top 10
Moscow State is #3 in QS World University Rankings: BRICS 100. 19 Russian universities have placed in the top 100, with MSU the best and the only one to break into the Top 10. There are 6 Russian universities in the Top 50. China’s results are more impressive: 22 in the Top 50, 40 in the Top 100, 7 in the Top 10.
28.11.2013 17:42 / TASS
CB Urges Government to Back Financial Literacy Lessons
The Central Bank of Russia urges the Government to support the proposed introduction of financial literacy lessons in schools.
08.04.2013 10:18 / Interfax
Ministry for Economic Development Will Procure Long-Term Visas for Foreign Investors
The Government has granted the Ministry for Economic Development the right to apply to diplomatic missions and consulates for visas to representatives or employees major foreign companies investing in Russia as well as Skolkovo project and MIFC project participants.
19.03.2013 08:02 / Interfax
Medvedev to Host Session on Tourism, Agenda Includes Third Party Liability Insurance
On Tuesday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will host a session on tourism development in Russia, distribution of tourism support functions between federal and regional authorities, improved third party liability for tour operators.
07.03.2013 11:43 / Interfax
Russia Down 4 Places in WEF Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index
Russia is #63 in Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index by World Economic Forum (WEF), down four positions versus the previous rating, published in 2011.
28.01.2013 20:48 / Interfax
Moscow Ready to Triple IT Companies Investments in Schools
Moscow City Hall is ready to back IT companies` school initiatives, adding three roubles on each one invested by the company, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said at a meeting with IT business on Monday.
02.11.2012 15:32 / vedomosti.ru
Ministry of Education and Science Found 1/4 of Russian Universities Inefficient
The Ministry of Education and Science has published the results of August-September 2012 Russian Universities monitoring based on 50 criteria (see the full list on www.vedomosti.ru). Five parameters are key: median USE score for state-sponsored students, research activity, university income level, share of foreign students and total floor space per student. Each parameter has been given a minimum limit.
30.10.2012 19:23 / vedomosti.ru
Russia Has Too Many Healthcare Regulators
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has studied the way of supervision over the healthcare sector, during the workgroup session at the Government Commission on Administrative Reform Execution (the workgroup is headed by the FAS Head Igor Artemyev), said Timofey Nizhegorodtsev, Head of the Department for Control Over Social Sphere and Trade.
23.10.2012 17:20 / Interfax
State Duma passed a bill simplifying visa regime for representatives of foreign companies investing in Russia, entering the Russian Federation, after its first reading.
18.10.2012 08:37 / Interfax
The Russian Government plans to discuss a draft project of the federal program called “Development of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries” at the meeting on Thursday, informed the Cabinet of Ministers’ Press Service.
04.10.2012 09:09 / Interfax
Russian Federation Offers New Methods of Visa Regime Liberalization for EU
Russia suggested solutions of a key problem for the EU that puts obstacles for signing an agreement on significant liberalization of a visa regime – an issue of official passports, Kommersant wrote on Thursday.
25.09.2012 22:31 / Vesti FM
Amendments To Civil Code Do Not Let Theatres and Museums Develop
The State Duma will study amendments to the Civil Code in a second reading in the nearest future; these amendments are a subject to worry about for museum workers, too.
25.09.2012 22:31 / vedomosti.ru
Moscow Hospitals To Be Run By Private Owners
The Moscow officials are going to transfer the city hospitals’ estate to concession, told Leonid Pechatnikov, Moscow Deputy Mayor for Social Development, in his live interview to the “Echo of Moscow” radio station.
20.07.2012 13:31 / RIA Novosti
Ministry of Culture Drafts 3-Day Visa-Free Entry Law
Foreign tourists will need no visa for a 3-day stay in Russia, if their purpose of visit is a cultural event. A draft law is being prepared by the Ministry of Culture, Vice President for Social Affairs Olga Golodets told the press Friday.
19.06.2012 18:56 / Interfax
Russian Ministry of Health to Stay Out of Pharmaceutical Market Regulation
“The Ministry does not regulate the market – be it pharmaceuticals, medicine or any other. This is not within the Ministry’s purview. The Ministry handles state regulation of pharmaceutical supply (registration, certification etc.) and standards oversight”, said minister Skvortsova.
19.06.2012 18:56 / RIA Novosti
Russia’s Donor Database to be Formed by end-2012
“This year, we are laying finishing touches on the donor database, that will enable every registered donor to come to a different area of the country, be identified and give blood there if he likes. People have had problems in doing so. When the database is ready, any person anywhere can show their passport, be identified in the database and give blood as a proper donor”, said Head of Federal Medicine and Biology Agency Vladinir Uiba at a RIA Novosti press conference.
19.06.2012 17:38 / Interfax
Health Ministry to Audit Regional Healthcare Modernization
The Ministry of Health is set to establish special mobile units that will audit all 83 regions of the country.
06.06.2012 11:06 / Interfax
Interfax/Moscow Echo Best Universities 2011-2012
Interfax and Moscow Echo Radio have presented the annual Russian National Universities Rating 2011/2012.
05.06.2012 18:50 / Interfax
e-Tickets on Russian Commuter Trains in 2013
e-Tickets will be introduced on Russian commuter trains in 2013, says Russian Railways.
28.05.2012 11:53 / RIA Novosti
Ministry of Health to Introduce New Quality Control
A new healthcare quality control system will be introduced in Russia, Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova told the press on Monday.
24.05.2012 17:31 / RBC
Medvedev Approves List of Accepted Diplomas
Russian prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved the list of foreign university diplomas accepted in Russia, says the government press release.
12.05.2012 15:31 / Interfax
Moscow Airports to Pick Unified Development Consultant
Within a month, Moscow Airports are to choose a consultant to develop a strategy concept for a managing company, a top rank source at the Ministry of Transport told the press on Friday.
11.10.2011 10:00 / RIA Novosti
Moscow Needs Highly-Qualified Foreign Personnel for the International Financial Center
Moscow authorities are looking to engage highly-qualified foreign personnel for the IFC formation, said Andrey Sharonov, Moscow Mayor’s Economic Policy Deputy, at the Moscow Government session on Tuesday.
10.10.2011 15:25 / Izvestia
Moscow authorities will begin the "Recreation and Tourist Industry Development" program for 2012-2016 with a new image concept. For the first time ever this is a tender bid, the Moscow Tourist Committee officials "Izvestia".