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Harrow Abu Dhabi to open in August 2027: fees from AED 80,000 to 106,000, boarding later

The British school Harrow will open a campus on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi in August 2027 after a delay. Founding Headmaster Adrian Frost spoke about the 'extended day' model, meals without lunchboxes from home, and plans to create the emirate's first boarding house no earlier than two years from now. Tuition will range from AED 80,000 to 106,000 per year. The British school Harrow will open its campus on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi in August 2027 after a delay to its original timeline. Founding headmaster Adrian Frost spoke about the extended-day model, meals without lunchboxes brought from home, and plans to establish the emirate's first boarding house no earlier than two years from now. Tuition will range from 80,000 to 106,000 dirhams per year.

Javlon Tursunov
4 min read
Education

In St. Petersburg a man tried to pull a girl out of an elevator — video published by the MVD

In St. Petersburg, a 38-year-old local resident attempted to abduct a schoolgirl from the elevator of a building on Sovetsky Prospekt. The child resisted, and the attacker was scared off by a neighbor. The suspect was detained, a criminal case has been opened, and the girl needed medical assistance. Video of the incident was published by MVD official spokesperson Irina Volk.

Javlon Tursunov
2 min read
Education

St. Petersburg Blogger Vladimir Serebrovsky Sent to Pretrial Detention in Case of Justifying Terrorism

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg remanded blogger Vladimir Serebrovsky into custody on charges under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation — public justification of terrorism. According to the investigation, his Telegram channel contained statements regarded as justifying the explosion at a café on Universitetskaya Embankment, in which war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky was killed. Serebrovsky will remain in pretrial detention until December 11, 2026.

Sevara Azamova
1 min read
Education

MSU Law Students Moved to Remote Learning Due to Measles

Students of the Law Faculty of Moscow State University will switch to remote learning from October 21 to November 3 due to a measles case, the Telegram channel Mash reports citing students. According to them, a master's student brought a certificate of an infectious disease to the university. This is already the third case of measles at the university: previously the infection was detected in an employee of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics in May and in a student of the Faculty of Psychology in January.

Sevara Azamova
1 min read
Education

Krasnoyarsk resident who threatened two girls with a pistol sentenced to 4 years and 10 months in a penal colony

On April 15, a 48-year-old man under the influence of drugs, near a building on Lineynaya Street in Krasnoyarsk, pointed a pistol at a seven-year-old girl and threatened to harm her, then entered a sports school and aimed the weapon at another girl. He was subdued by a coach and the child's father. The court sentenced him to 4 years and 10 months in a general-regime penal colony in a hooliganism case involving violence.

Javlon Tursunov
2 min read
Education

Ministry of Education approves the procedure for assessing schoolchildren's behavior as part of the 2026/27 academic year experiment

Russia's Ministry of Education has established rules for assessing students' behavior as part of an experiment in the 2026/27 academic year. Behavior will be assessed on three levels — 'exemplary', 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable'. The decision will be made by the class teacher at the end of the quarter, trimester or academic year. The experiment will cover students in grades 2 through 8, with at least 10 schools participating in each region.

Javlon Tursunov
2 min read