16.2%

of students who attend schools in the inner Moscow suburbs are children whose native language is not Russian.

These data were obtained by Daniil Alexandrov, head of the Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science at HSE - St. Petersburg, and laboratory staff members Valeria Ivaniushina and Ekaterina Kazartseva during a study on the ethnic composition of Russian schools and the migration status of foreign children.

The study was conducted using material from five regions (the Moscow Region (excluding the city of Moscow), St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, Tomsk, and Pskov). The fewest number of students whose native language is not Russian could be found in the small towns and villages of the Leningrad Region - 6.6%.