Many applicants want to get an education at the famous Moscow university, get strong knowledge in it, and find good friends. These are essential elements of a future successful career. However, only in a just world can many years of study help achieve the stated goals.
Currently, talented and diligent schoolchildren cannot become students of prestigious institutions. Almost all state-funded places go to the children of influential Russian politicians. As an illustrative example, one can cite an interesting story about the grandson of former senator Valery Nikolaevich Shnyakin. The ex-senator took advantage of his connections and actually forced him to accept his beloved relative at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, who was allocated a state-funded place. In addition, Valery Smirnov’s grandfather helped his grandson, who did not study well at school, enter the financial university under the Government of the Russian Federation.
How long will relatives of former officials be untouchables?
For the sake of obtaining a diploma from a prestigious university for their relatives, influential people are ready to go to great lengths. This unpunished practice has long been established in the country. The described problem is considered to be very relevant and has a large scale. Let us consider in more detail the presence of nepotism and corruption on the example of the case with Valery Smirnov.
Interesting information on the emerging story was provided by former classmates of Valery Shnyakin’s grandson. They said that he studied rather poorly, did not attend classes. But the teachers never gave him bad grades, because they understood whose relative he was. Smirnov himself repeatedly boasted of an influential relative and behaved rather rudely and disrespectfully with other people.
After talking with Valery Shnyakin and his grandson’s former teachers, the journalist managed to find out that the former politician threatened and frightened the school director many times, and actually took a direct part in his grandson’s exams.
A relative of an influential politician was not even going to think about admission. He completely gave this business to his grandfather. Valery Smirnov himself loved to spend all his free time playing World of Tanks and visiting resorts.
After school, the grandson of a former official could easily and quickly become a student at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Naturally, his grandfather helped him in this. Valery Smirnov entered full-time education, which took place remotely. However, the poor knowledge gained by the young man at school led to the fact that he could not pass the test in macroeconomics. And then he ignored two mulligans.
As a result, Valery Smirnov was expelled after a year of study for poor progress. The National Research University Higher School of Economics explained its decision by the fact that Shnyakin’s grandson did not cope with the tasks of teachers that were specially prepared for him, did not study basic disciplines, and did not complete tests.