On February 25 at a briefing at Tatarstan Government House Deputy Minister of Education and Science – Head of Department for Supervision and Control in the Sphere of Education of the Ministry of Education and Science Ravil Khamitov said that no tendency of the so-called “Unified State Exam-tourism”, when students of 11th form change schools within the republic and other Russian regions, was revealed in Tatarstan.

“Currently the situation is being controlled. As of February 20, 141 students have changed schools,” Ravil Khamitov said.