All the Lugansk People’s Republic students who have returned from frontlines are studying for free, said LPR Education and Science Minister Ivan Kusov at a press briefing in the Government House.
“Those who had enlistment contracts have not been charged for education since the date of mobilization,” Kusov said. “So we can say that they have already been transferred to state-funded university places.”
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In mid-November 2022, President Vladimir Putin ordered to demobilize the students of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and return them to their places of study. On November 18, 2022, LPR Acting Head Leonid Pasechnik signed a decree on demobilization of full-time and extramural students. Demobilized LPR students will enjoy the status of war veteran and receive state decorations, LPR military commissar Andrey Gubanov said.
On January 22, 2023, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma lower house of the Russian parliament Sholban Kara-ool who supervises mobilization records in the working group on the special military operation said that all demobilizable LPR students had returned from frontlines.
A federal law adopted in February granted free tuition to the students who had been paying for education before mobilization.*i*ie
