Education Law Laboratory

Szymon Jankiewicz and Nadezhda Knyaginina made a report on “Language in Unified Educational Space” on the 19th April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.

The report was made as part of the session on “Variability of Education Forms and Risks of Inequality” within the section “Geographical Differentiation in Education”


Szymon Jankiewicz, Director of the Center for Education Law, and Nadezhda Knyaginina, Junior Research Fellow at the Center for Education Law, presented the results of their scientific study on how language rights in education are guaranteed in Russia.


The authors analyzed the norms of the legislation concerning languages in education in all 85 subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as regional court practice, which makes this research the first one that focused on the regional context.