MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) – The education minister for a republic in Russia’s North Caucasus was detained accepting a 650,000 ruble ($20,000) bribe to make sure that two students passed the Unified State Exam, required for entering college, police said Sunday.
The news comes a day before Russian high school grads nationwide take the exam, on July 8.
Boris Spiridonov, head of education in the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, had charged the parents of the two students 1,000 rubles for each point they were to be given on the exam, police said in a statement.
