Students of MIPT are required to learn Chinese

Students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology told the Telegram channel “Ostrozhno, novosti” that they were forced to sign up for Chinese language lessons. which appeared in their program as obligatory along with English.

At the same time, Spanish, German, and French have disappeared from the MIPT program, and it is impossible to enroll in a new course.

The press service of the university explained that MIPT is discussing the formats and scope of introducing the Chinese language as the second compulsory language after English, so that graduates are able to read technical documentation and scientific publications.

MIPT claims that currently up to 27% of all scientific articles in areas relevant to the university are written in Chinese, and by 2030 up to half of all technical and engineering documentation will be published in Chinese.

At the same time, as noted by the human rights organization “Pervy Otdel”, in recent years, Russian scientists are often accused of treason in favor of China.

Aleksey Vorobyev, a teacher of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of dust from the “Chinese region” on the phone’s memory card. Physicist Alexander Lukanin – seven years on charges of transferring secret technologies to China. 69-year-old MIPT professor Valery Golubkin was accused of treason after participating in an international project. The president of the Arctic Public Academy of Sciences and Arctic researcher Valery Mytko was accused of treason for lecturing at the University of China. The 81-year-old scholar did not live to be sentenced.