Ministry of Education and Science (Russia)
| Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации | |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Russia |
| Headquarters |
Tverskaya 11, Moscow, Russia 55°45′38.50″N 37°36′35.21″E / 55.7606944°N 37.6097806°ECoordinates: 55°45′38.50″N 37°36′35.21″E / 55.7606944°N 37.6097806°E |
| Annual budget | 492.5 billion rouble (FY 2011) |
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| Child agency | |
| Website | минобрнауки |
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Russian: Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации or Minobrnauki of Russia) oversees scientific institutions, education and school accreditation in the Russian Federation. The agency has its headquarters in Tverskoy District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow.
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.
The current Minister is Olga Vasilyeva.
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 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:
Scientific, scientific and technical and innovative activity, the development of federal centers of science and high technology, state scientific centers and so called "science-cities" and intellectual property,
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 Russia is a federal executive authority responsible for the state policy development and normative and legal regulation in the sphere of education, research, scientific, technological and innovation activities, nanotechnology, intellectual property, as well as in the sphere of nurturing, social support and social protection of students and pupils of educational institutions. The Ministry assumed responsibility for the demolished Federal Science and Innovations Agency and the Federal Education Agency as per the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on March 4, 2010 №271.
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