The Afghan Ministry of Higher Education, established by the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), has banned 500 students from studying in Russia. The publication “Hasht-e Sobkh” writes about this.
Muslims claim that students abroad have changed their views, “leaving Russia as Muslims and returning as communists.”
According to the newspaper, we are talking about young men who successfully passed the entrance exams for Russian universities in 2024. They were supposed to go to the Russian Federation last September, but the processing Their documents were stopped. The representative of the Russian House of Scientists and Culture said that the problem does not lie with Russia but was created by the Taliban and has not yet been resolved.
In 2021, the Taliban promised to launch an education program that would allow Afghan students to study abroad. At the same time, the movement decided to remove subjects contrary to Sharia law from university curricula.
