Students from another six epidemiologically safe countries are permitted to enter the Russian Federation for study purposes.  

 According to the official website of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, students, post graduate students, interns and students of preparatory faculties from Abkhazia, Venezuela, Germany, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan can come back to their universities in Russia.  

Under the document posted in the ministry’s official website, students, post graduate students, interns and students of preparatory faculties who are permitted to enter Russia for study purposes must fly in from one of the 30 countries with which Russia has restored airline service.  These countries are Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Venezuela, Vietnam, Germany, Greece, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, Cuba, the Maldives, UAE, the Seychelles, Serbia, Singapore, Syria, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Finland, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, South Korea, South Ossetia, Japan are permitted to enter Russia for study purposes 

To be allowed into the country to study, students must present a medical document written in Russian or English that confirms that they have received a negative COVID-19 test no more than three days prior to departing for Russia.  After arrival, students are required to isolate and take another COVID test within 72 hours.  They can leave isolation at the point when they receive a negative test result.

Recall, representatives from Rospotrebnadzor (the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing), which makes the final decision on return of foreign students, were in Tajikistan last month to research the situation at hospitals and medical labs.

According to some sources, there are about 26,000 Tajiks studying at Russian universities, many of whom have been stuck at home and forced to study online since borders were closed due to the pandemic last year.