Russian officials float initiative to offer military enlistment to failing university students instead of expulsion

Russian officials float initiative to offer military enlistment to failing university students instead of expulsion

Officials in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region have recommended military service as an alternative to expulsion for failing students in a scheme that would offer academic leave instead. Earlier this week, an independent student union published a letter from the regional Education Ministry addressed to the president of Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg.

Last year, the Sverdlovsk Region failed its plan to recruit contract servicemen