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Statistics provided by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of Lithuania based on comparison with the 2021-2022 academic year.
In Lithuania, the number of students studying Russian in schools as a second foreign language has decreased by tens of percent. TASS reports this with reference to the Lithuanian Ministry of Education, Science and Sports.
According to the Lithuanian authorities, the number of schoolchildren who chose to study this language has decreased to 65 thousand, that is, 40 percent less compared to the 2021-2022 school year.
German remains the second most popular second foreign language among Lithuanian schoolchildren.

The Ural Federal University entered into a pilot project for the transition to a new model of higher education, including 11 institutes in Yekaterinburg and a technological institute in Nizhny Tagil. This year, admission to basic and specialized higher education programs is open, and postgraduate studies have become a separate type of professional education. The fundamental part of the programs includes the Russian language, advanced mathematics and a discipline in literacy in the field of artificial intelligence.

Teacher's Day in Russia is celebrated annually on September 27 in memory of the opening of the first kindergarten in St. Petersburg in 1863. The holiday received official status in 2016 after an initiative by pedagogical publications and a survey supported by the majority of respondents. On this day, all employees of preschool institutions are honored: teachers, assistants, methodologists, health workers and others. Traditions include matinees, concerts, exhibitions of children's work and professional competitions. Gifts to educators are limited by law to three thousand rubles.

In Smolensk, after a major overhaul, school No. 1 was opened, founded in 1940 and being a cultural heritage site. Governor Vasily Anokhin took part in the ceremony. The work was carried out according to the national project.

The Russian Ministry of Education recommended that teachers not upload information about students, parents and school staff to AI services, and also not present texts created by AI as their own work without indicating the use of a neural network and independent processing of the material. Such texts must be accompanied by a note indicating the specific technology.

Teachers in Russian schools can use artificial intelligence at different stages of their work: from preparing educational materials to analyzing the performance and behavior of participants in the educational process, including adapting content for children with disabilities.

Students in grades 5–11 will be able to use artificial intelligence to perform educational tasks with the consent of the teacher: in grades 5–9 – to search for information, explain concepts and visualize material, in grades 10–11 – also for design and research activities, including data analysis and model building.