No more online learning: Foreign students at Russian universities can now enter country if they arrive with negative Covid-19 test

Foreign students

Foreign students can now return to study at Russian universities after they have been tested twice for Covid-19. The announcement comes a week after full-time in-person tuition resumed, following months of distance learning.

Many foreign students have been stuck abroad since the initial coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020, when colleges switched to online teaching and they flew home.  For some, especially those who come from countries with a significant time difference to their university, remote tuition has been incredibly difficult. For others who live in regions with no or prohibitively expensive internet, studying has been nigh on impossible.

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