Belarusian education and Russia’s presence in it 

The main focus in July in the Belarusian education system is the admissions campaign for higher education institutions.

June is a distinctive month for the Belarusian education system, marking the transition period between the end of the school year and the beginning of the summer holidays.

The results of the May monitoring study demonstrated the development of previous trends characteristic of Belarusian education in recent years, including restriction of the right to teach for politically disloyal citizens and strengthening of ideological control by the state over the education sector.

The results of the April monitoring study showed that the trends observed earlier in the current academic year have persisted.

In February 2026, previously established trends in Belarus’s education system remained.

The first month of 2026 showed a certain slowdown in the pace of the ideologization and militarization of the education system in Belarus, and this situation can be explained by a combination of several factors.