More than 800 youngsters with father’s that fought in Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine have been enlisted in Russia’s high 15 universities regardless of failing to attain the required grades, an investigation by an unbiased media outlet has discovered.

The college students are the primary to profit from an modification signed by the Russian chief to the regulation on schooling earlier this summer time that enables conflict veterans and their youngsters the suitable to enter universities “under a separate quota”.

Admittance of those distinctive circumstances diversified throughout Russian universities however every institution is required to recruit at the least 10 p.c of its scholar pool from these collaborating in, or affiliated with, the conflict in Ukraine.

Hundreds of people who benefited from this scheme both weren't required to take the nationwide Unified State Examinations (USE) or had been admitted with scores as little as thrice beneath the required move mark.

It is the most recent initiative mandated by the Kremlin to encourage participation within the SMO as personnel numbers within the occupied territories proceed to dwindle within the face of the Ukrainian counter offensive.

One boy, recognized as Dmitry, was filmed bragging about being accepted into the Phystech School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at MIPT, the seventh most prestigious Russian college, situated on the northern outskirts of Moscow, after attaining thrice lower than the passing rating within the entrance examination.

In an interview along with his college, he stated smiling: “I'm the first one in history with such scores. Perhaps the last one.”

“I did so poorly [at school] that every teacher told me that I would be cured,” he stated, earlier than boasting that in his interview, he couldn't remedy any of the duties he was given.

He added that he was not required to take the necessary examination in laptop science, in contrast to his fellow candidates, as a result of his particular standing.

The college had been eager to dissuade the coed who was so evidently unsuited to the calls for of their curriculum however Dmitry stated he was undeterred.

“[A separate quota] was given to me because my father participated in the SVO for one year and was wounded there,” he stated.

“They began to dissuade me harshly. They say I won't pull it. They asked: ‘Do you understand where you are going?’ I explained to them that since I can enter here, I want to go here for sure.”

Dmitry was one in every of greater than 200 folks uncovered by Russian investigative outlet “Important Stories” to have been admitted with none concern for his USEs.

An additional 429 college students with fathers that survived participation within the conflict in Ukraine had been admitted “without even gaining a passing score”, “Important Stories” reported.

Of people who certified for particular standing however had been nonetheless required to take the USE, 69 p.c “passed the exams worse than necessary for admission without benefits”.

Special standing college students will examine a variety of subjects from historical past to tv journalism, with some even securing locations to develop into medical doctors regardless of their poor academic ranges.

The variety of college students that had been admitted to all Russian universities, not simply the highest 15 institutions, utilizing the “separate quota” totalled greater than 7,000, in keeping with the Ministry of Education and Science.