16 January 2012, 21:10
Rostov Region: higher school teacher sentenced conditionally for bribe-taking
The Rostov Regional Court has found a female associate professor from the Shakhty Institute guilty of bribe-taking and fined her by 40,000 roubles.
According to prosecutors, Irina Evlannikova, an associate professor at the division of "Humanities and Social Sciences" of the Shakhty Institute (Branch) of the South-Russian State Technical University (Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute), received a bribe of 1000 roubles from a student for a fictitious passage of a test.
The sentence of the Rostov Regional Court has fined Evlannikova by 40,000 roubles and deprived her of the right to teach at state-run educational institutions for three years, says the statement posted on the website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.
The newspaper "Argumenty i Facty" specifies that her three-year ban to teach covers state-run universities and secondary schools.