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In August 2026, a scandal arose due to the fact that applicants with the right to admission without entrance examinations (BVI) took all the budget places, displacing high-scoring USE students.
The Ministry of Education approved the order of the list of Olympiads for schoolchildren and their levels for the 2026-2027 academic year. The document appeared on the official website for the publication of legal acts.
According to the order, in Russia the list of competitions, the winners and prize-winners of which will receive the right to priority admission to a university, will be reduced from 83 to 60.
The ministry came to this decision after a scandal regarding the admission of students with 100 points to universities, which erupted during the summing up of the results of the 2026 admissions campaign in early August. In some popular areas, budget places were completely occupied by applicants with BVI qualification, as a result of which graduates who passed the Unified State Exam (USE) with 300 points could not get into their dream universities.

Alexey Morozov, a computer science teacher from the Tver region, won the All-Russian competition “Teacher of the Year in Russia,” having announced the start of preparations for the competition in August 2025. His mascot was an icon in the form of a Rubik's cube.

Rumors are spreading online about the reduction of study periods in schools and universities with reference to Vladimir Medinsky. However, the official voiced this opinion two years ago, and relevant departments, including the Ministry of Education, officially denied the existence of plans to change the system.

Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Elena Yampolskaya proposed introducing a unified format for recording school Olympiads when entering universities to support talented children.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation has approved a list of Olympiads for schoolchildren for the 2026/27 academic year, including 60 Olympiads in various fields, such as economics, autonomous transport sciences, unmanned aerial systems, big data and machine learning, genome editing, nuclear technology, philology and financial literacy. Each Olympiad is assigned level I, II or III.

FIPI has published recommendations based on the results of the Unified State Exam in Literature 2026. The main mistakes were the substitution of professional terms with commonly used words, the use of slang and incorrect borrowing of concepts from other sciences. The average percentage of tasks completed is 72.5%.

Unified school television will be launched in all Russian schools from 2027. The project will first cover 15 pilot regions, said the head of the Ministry of Education, Sergei Kravtsov.