On Tuesday, SVT met the Russian exchange student Daria Rodionova in Växjö, who was hoping to study in Sweden this autumn as well.

But this is no longer possible, as Swedish universities, at the request of the Minister of Education, have chosen to break all agreements with the Russian state due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

- We have listened to the government's recommendations and we follow them, of course.

For us, this currently means that we have decided to wait to invite students from Russian state universities before the autumn semester, writes Niklas Ammert, vice-rector at LNU, in an email to SVT.

Frozen collaborations

Despite the broken agreements, Russian students can still apply for exchanges on their own without being nominated by their Russian university.

- We do not exclude any individual, but collaborations with our Russian partner universities have been frozen and thus all new nominations, Niklas Ammert writes to SVT.

But according to Daria Rodionova, it is not possible to implement in practice as it means that the students would have to pay the tuition fee themselves.

- It is more or less impossible as it will be expensive.

We have low incomes in Russia, she says.

CLIP: Russian student Daria no longer welcome

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Daria Rodionova wanted to study human rights for another semester in Sweden.

Hear why, in the clip above.

Photo: Kajsa Oscarson / SVT