The foundation is developing international education programs for children and adolescents from 3 to 19 years. Their diplomas or certificates allow to continue education or receive a job in any of the countries who accepted these programs.
After the start of Russian invasion into Ukraine, the International Baccalaureate published recommendations on how to speak about the war at schools. They included a recommendation to “understand both sides” and too note “Russia’s fear of NATO expansion so close to its borders.”
About 30 Russian school including state-owned ones that have introduced the foundation’s education programs over the years are mentioned on the foundation’s website, the international gymnasium school of the Skolkovo Innovation Center among them.
International Baccalaureate
Name
International Baccalaureate
Field of activity
Socio-educational initatives and projects
Status
“Undesirable organization”
Reason for recognition
Prosecutor General's office states that the foundation aims at "formatting the Russian youth according to Western templates" and imposes its vision of historical processes to schoolers in its education programs, distorts well-known facts, incites interethnic hatred and carries on anti-Russian propaganda.
"From the start of the special military operation, [the foundation's] education and methodic manuals have been corrected in accordance with the Russophobic stance of the collective West. There appeared calls for international isolation of our country and materials discrediting the Russian army," the Prosecutor General's office said.
Year of recognition
2025
Status description
Since 2015, this status can be assigned to foreign and international non-governmental organizations that, in the opinion of the Russian government, pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation, the defense capability of the country, or state security. Since 2021, this registry also includes those who cooperate with “undesirable organizations.”
Who recognizes:
Prosecutor General’s Office in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cooperating organizations are entered into the register by the Prosecutor General’s Office independently.
Restrictions:
Recognition of an organization as “undesirable” entails a complete ban on its activities in Russia. Russian citizens and Russian legal entities are not allowed to cooperate with it either on or off the territory of Russia.
A website that distributes information materials of an “undesirable organization” may be blocked. Formally, there is no administrative or criminal responsibility for this, but law enforcement authorities may interpret it as participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization.”
Administrative liability:
Participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization,” a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles (Art. 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
Criminal liability:
Participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization,” if the person has previously been held administratively liable, a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles or imprisonment for up to four years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities. The organization of such activities faces imprisonment for up to six years. (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code)
Providing funds or raising funds for an “undesirable organization” can carry a prison sentence of up to five years.