Raising stipends for PhD students and the taxation of research grants

kovudragon back in March wrote about the planned raise in stipends for PhD students in 2009. This raise was only going to be 1.2 times higher, i.e. up to a laughable 1800 rubles. (The last raise was way back in 2006.) It seemed safe to assume the raise would come with the new academic year, but it never did. I also learned how absurd the taxation of research grants is, so at the end of September I wrote a new letter to the President of the Russian Federation, in two parts.

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