29 août 2025|
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|3 months agoRussia Bans Swiss-Based International Baccalaureate as 'Undesirable'
Geneva-headquartered International Baccalaureate declared 'undesirable' by Russian authorities over alleged Russophobia, affecting thousands of students just before academic year.
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- Russia's Prosecutor General declared the International Baccalaureate 'undesirable' on August 25, 2025
- 29 schools in Russia offered IB programmes as of August 2025
- IB was founded in 1968 in Geneva
- IB works with more than 6,000 schools in over 160 countries
By The Numbers
29
Number of Russian schools offering IB programmes before ban
6000+
Schools worldwide offering IB programmes
160+
Countries with IB programmes
They Said
"shaping Russian youth according to Western templates"
"imposing its own interpretation of historical processes, distorting widely known facts, engaging in anti-Russian propaganda, and inciting ethnic hatred"