Russian Ministry of Education
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Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation oversees scientific institutions, education and school accreditation in the Russian Federation. The agency has its headquarters in Tverskoy District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

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The ministry oversees Institute of Higher Education Of Russia, the State educational establishment ("training center of training leaders"), Center of the testing, National Information Center on Academic Recognition and Mobility.

Ministry

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (in brief, MES of Russia) was established on March 9, 2004 by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation N 314. The MES of Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 acquired the functions relating to the adoption of regulatory legal acts in the sphere of activity of the previously abolished Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, and the functions relating to the adoption of regulatory legal acts in the scientific field implemented by the abolished Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies of the Russian Federation, as well as the functions relating to the adoption of regulatory legal acts in the area of activities of the Russian Patents and Trade Marks Agency.

The MES of Russia is a federal body implementing the executive functions relating to the development of state policy and to legal regulation in the following spheres:

Education

Scientific, scientific and technical and innovative activity, the development of federal centers of science and high technology, state scientific centers and so called "science-towns
Science City
Science City may refer to the following:A centre for interactive science in different cities across the world, as a museum:* Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India* Science City, Kapurthala, Punjab, India* Science City, Kolkata, West Bengal, India...

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Youth policy, education, guardianship and tutorship, social support and social protection of students and pupils of educational institutions.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation co-ordinates and controls the work of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

, Patents and Trade Marks, the Federal Agency of Supervision in Education and Science, the Federal Science and Innovations Agency and the Federal Education Agency, which are subordinate to it.

The work of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation is governed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, Federal Constitutional Laws, Decrees by the President of the Russian Federation
President of the Russian Federation
The President of the Russian Federation is the head of state, supreme commander-in-chief and holder of the highest office within the Russian Federation...

, international agreements concluded by the Russian Federation as well as the Statute of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation works in cooperation with other federal executive bodies, executive bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation, local authorities, public associations and other institutions.

FIPSE

In 2008 the Russian Ministry of Education and the United States Department of Education
United States Department of Education
The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government...

 embarked on their first joint education initiative, the FIPSE scholarship. US universities involved in the joint grant include Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

, University of Illinois, the University of Iowa, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is a four-year state university located in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Founded in 1908 as Omaha University, the institution became the public Municipal University of Omaha in 1931. It assumed its current name in 1968 following a merger into the University...

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