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Hello, my name is Anastasia, and
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my question is this: how can the country develop
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in the future if the number of state-funded university places
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is shrinking while tuition costs
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are, of course, rising? This girl
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probably cried all night. A good,
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smart girl named Anastasia, and she
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studies at a school for gifted children.
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She prepared herself, after all the President of Russia
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had come to their school. She came up with a good
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question, and the answer to it matters to all of us,
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but she did not know one thing: that the president
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of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin,
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lies brazenly and shamelessly at every
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one of his
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press conferences, lies while answering almost
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every question, has been lying for 18 years, and has made
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lying the main instrument of his politics.
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Naturally, in this case too he brazenly
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lied, looking Anastasia and all the
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other schoolchildr
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As I understand it, he came to campaign,
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so that they would watch fewer
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opposition channels on YouTube. “How
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can the country develop in the future if
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the number of state-funded places is shrinking while
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the cost of education, of course,
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is rising?” “The number of state-funded places is not
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shrinking. No, the number of state-funded
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places
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is increasing. The number of state-funded places
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is shrinking. The number of state-funded places
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is increasing.” But it is very easy for us
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to check these figures, isn’t it? And for
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that, you and I will use
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only official data from Rosstat (Russia’s federal statistics agency) and the
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Ministry of Education. Let’s look
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first at the number of state-funded places for
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first-year students, that is, new state-funded
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places. In 2000, when Vladimir Putin
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came to power, there were almost
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587,000. Now, in 201[?], the plan is for
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530,000. So fact number one: during
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Putin’s rule, the number of state-funded
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places for students entering universities has decreased
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by 10%. Now let’s look at how many
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students in Russia study in state-funded
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places overall, not just first-years
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but all of them. In 2000, when Putin
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became president, there were
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2,802,000 people. Then this
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sad graph happened, and in 2016
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the last year for which there are
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statistics, there were left
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1,080,000 people. So fact number two:
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during Putin’s rule, the number of state-funded
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students has fallen by almost a million
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people, a decline of
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32%. And I am sure, you know, I am sure that
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Anastasia knew these figures too. But they are not
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hard to find. That is exactly why we hear
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her trying to object there: “But there is
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official statistics, after all.” Well,
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there is indeed statistics, but Anastasia
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was not going to unsettle anyone there with a question
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about statistics or back them into a corner.
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The standard of living is falling. “We are observing
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a very modest but still real growth in
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wages,” says the man who lies that we have
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no censorship, even though everyone in the country knows
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that it exists. “We currently have no censorship
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in any sphere,” says the man who claims that
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Russia is fighting corruption, even though
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he himself is the country’s chief
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corrupt official. Anastasia, the answer to your
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question sounds sad for now: how can the country develop
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in the future if the number of
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state-funded places is shrinking? The country will not
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develop in the future under this
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government.
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It will be abnormal to study, abnormal
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to work, impossible to earn a decent salary.
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And really, what is there to say? Look at who
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is the top figure at this school for
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gifted children where this
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remarkable dialogue took place: Sergei
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Roldugin, Vladimir Putin’s childhood friend.
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He is a cellist, a musician. There is no way
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he could have earned enormous sums over the course of
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his life, and yet through
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the accounts of his Panamanian offshore companies
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passed billions of dollars, which he and
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Vladimir Putin let’s call things
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by their proper names simply stole and received
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as bribes. This fact came to light during an
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international investigation. And what
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happened? Nothing. So in order
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for there to be development, we need to fight
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these people by every method, from rallies
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to elections, from videos to leaflets.
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When you and I together drive these
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thieves and liars out of the Kremlin, then the
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country will have some prospects. You
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The number of state-funded places is increasing.