The State Duma rejected a bill on preferential admission to universities for children from large families.
On November 10, the State Duma rejected in the first reading the bill, which was submitted on April 7, 2025 by 13 deputies of the LDPR faction led by Leonid Slutsky and two senators - Elena Afanasyeva and Adiim Dangin.
The authors proposed giving children from families with three or more children the right to participate in the competition for budget places within the current special quota. This is admission to a bachelor's and specialist degree at a university in the place of residence in an area with a low birth rate. The list of such areas was to be determined by the Russian government.
Those candidates were offered an advantage when enrolling in the army and a number of other departmental universities, including universities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Guard, the Federal Prison Service and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The advantage will apply upon successful completion of the entrance exam and other things being equal.
87 deputies voted in favor of the bill, with 226 required. It was supported by 35 deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, 22 deputies of the LDPR, including Leonid Slutsky, 19 deputies of the New People, 9 deputies of Just Russia and 2 non-factional deputies. There were no votes against or abstentions. Of the 363 deputies who did not vote, 350 represented United Russia - the entire faction.
Among the deputies elected from the Saratov region, only Olga Alimova (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) voted "for". Vyacheslav Volodin, Antonina Glyashkina, Nikolai Pankov, Alexander Yanklovich, Anna Kuznetsova, Gleb Khor and Sergey Gladkov (United Russia) did not vote.