RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW About the ratification of the European equivalence of the Universities, and its Protocol Accepted State Duma of 18 June 1999 approved by the Council of the Federation on 25 June 1999 Ratified the European Convention on the Equivalence of Diplomas in Access to Universities, of 11 December 1953, signed by of the Russian Federation in the city of Strasbourg on 7 November 1996, and the Protocol to On behalf of the Russian Federation, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in the city of Strasbourg on 19 February 1998. President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 8 July 1999 N 147-FZ