In Bulgaria there is an increased interest of young people in the possibility of obtaining a Russian education. If in recent decades, Russia has been inferior to Western universities, in the last few years the situation has changed for the better.
“In Bulgaria, there is a steady demand for Russian education and recently we have been recording in the dynamics the growth of interest on the part of the Bulgarians towards the free education program in Russia #russiastudy. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the academic year 2017/2018, 283 undergraduate/graduate students from Bulgaria study in Russian universities, 236 received this opportunity under the #russiastudy program. We are planning that about 300 people from Bulgaria will be able to study in Russia this year,” says Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo Representative Office in Bulgaria, Director of the Russian Cultural and Information Center in Sofia, Pavel Zhuravlev.
The return of Bulgaria’s interest in Russian education is also a consequence of Russia’s open policy in this direction.