oksana pottorkina, egor gerazimov and andrey letvin, senate program.in russia be like after the reform? by order of the president, six leading universities in the country are participating in a pilot project to change the levels of vocational education. these are the baltic federal university, the moscow aviation institute, as well as mesis mspu, tomsk state university and st. petersburg mining university. in gorny, they began the transition to a new system this year. universities are different, each has its own specifics, and that’s how it was intended, the results will be summed up, as expected, in 2026. then it will be finally clear in which direction russian higher education will move, well now we have the opportunity to find out the opinion of the rector of the mining university vladimir litvinenko. by the way, to the oldest technician. the country's university turned 250 this week, congratulations on this anniversary, tell us what it is, today is an unusual day for us, well, first of all, it’s really solemn, because we opened catherine, the great