In 2025, Russian-speaking media and Telegram channels said that 30 years ago the future president of Ukraine became one of the worst applicants of the prestigious Moscow University. As evidence, the allegedly recently found examination was given. We checked the authenticity of this information.
It follows from the Vedomosti, which is actively distributed in Runet, in 1995, Vladimir Zelensky tried to enter the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), but, according to the test results, scored only 37 points (as claimed, out of 150 possible) and took the fourth place from the end in a list of 48 applicants.
Messages about the alleged failure of Zelensky in the exam were distributed in several stages. So, at the end of January 2025, TV presenter and professor MGIMO Yuri Vyazemsky declared: “MGIMO did the right thing that he did not take him. Only Zelensky was not enough for us. Then the medical board worked for us - she had to understand that he was a schizophrenic. ” Then about this news reported TV channel "Star". In May, about the allegedly discovered statement told The Ukrainian pro -Russian blogger Diana Panchenko (her video on YouTube at the time of writing this analysis gained 519,000 views). The message actively diverged into Telegram - in particular, the corresponding posts went out in the channels "Sheikh Tamir"(124,000 views),"Ostashko! Important"(114 000),"Cat Kostyan"(77 000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(57,000) and others.
According to official biography Vladimir Zelensky, in 1995–2000 he studied as a lawyer at the Kiev National Economic University (KNEU). In an interview with 2008 he ClaimedWhat was trained at the branch of this university in his native Krivoy Rog, and also admitted that he had previously dreamed of becoming a diplomat. Zelensky explained to the change in his preferences as follows: “At the time I graduated from school, Kimo (Kiev Institute of International Relations. - Ed.) Only appeared, so I wanted to enter MGIMO. But when he found out about the conditions of admission, how much who needs to pay, I realized: to become a subsionalist student is an impossible task for me. By the time of graduation, I turned 17 and a half years old. If I had not entered the university, I would be taken to the army. And there, like me, quick -tempered, etc., it is impossible. Therefore, he did not risk it. Knowing English well (I studied in a class with an in -depth study of the English language) and the theory of state and law, I entered the law faculty at the Krivorozh branch of the KSU named after T. G. Shevchenko. " Here, apparently, Zelensky or journalist mixed up the name of the university.
In an interview with Dmitry Gordon in 2018 Zelensky confirmedthat he wanted to become a diplomat and was thinking of entering MGIMO. He clarified that the “very serious” parents of his classmate told him about the unpleasant condition for enrolling in the university (“there”). After that, the future Ukrainian president decided to enter the local institute, where his father taught at the department of computer science.
From the words of Zelensky it follows that the choice in favor of the Krivorozh branch of KNAU was made while studying at school. About the same in the biography of politics Writes Dmitry Bykov, referring to the words of his teacher of mathematics Elena Bogacheva. She told the writer that Zelensky convinced her after practice to go to work at a local university, where he himself was about to act.
Let us now consider the examination sheet that the media and Telegram channels actively distributed.
There are quite a few questions for this document. For example, the structural and legal form of the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education MGIMO received Only in 2015.
The examination statements indicate such details as the time of the beginning and end of the exam, as well as the surname of the examiner, but the name of the subject is not indicated, the knowledge of which the applicants were tested. Also in this fragment of the document there is a spelling error - “form of conducte exam ".
The surname of the examiner does not correspond to the signature. Testing was carried out by a certain K. N. Nikitin, however, the autograph is clearly distinguishable by the “turbine”. In MGIMO, indeed There is A professor with this surname, who worked at the university in 1995, but it specializes in economics and insurance law, so it is unlikely that she could take an exam with future diplomats.
Between the date of the exam in the upper part of the sheet and the date of compilation of the statement in the lower - incredibly large (even taking into account the time for verification) the gap: July 28 and August 15. But it is much more important that if the upper date is clearly printed by the Courier font (or Courier New), then the lower font is very reminiscent of Calibri, presented The public only in 2006, 11 years after the proposed exam.
Finally, one of the most important inconsistencies in this statement is the evaluation scale. “Checked” five people who received in MGIMO in 1993–2000. Four of them (including the 1995 applicant) said that each of the four entrance exams was evaluated on a five-point scale, another (1997 applicant)-which is 25-point (20 points for the test, 5 points for an oral response). That is, 150 points, as indicated in the news, the applicant could not score in any way, especially in one exam.
Thus, the document has numerous signs of falsification. Zelensky himself said that he thought to go to MGIMO before passing exams, other sources confirm this.
The first photo of the statement was published by the Telegram channel "Shaman Rahu"January 27 at 13:13 Moscow time. This channel repeatedly He was convicted “verified” in the spread of inaccurate information about Ukraine and often became its primary source.
Photo on the cover: Instagram
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