Penza, 24 April 2013. PenzaNews. Over 100 students, their parents, and faculty of the branch of the Russian State University of Innovative Technologies and Business (ITBU) protested against merging with Moscow State University of Technology and Management named after K. Razumovsky (Russia's leading university in food processing industry) in Penza on Wednesday, April 24.

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According to the chairman of the parent committee of the Penza branch of ITBU Vladimir Rysin, the protesters do not oppose to the process of reorganization in general, but want it to be fair.

He stressed that the ITBU branch has good material and technical base in Penza.

“The diploma of the Russian State University of Innovative Technologies and Business is highly rated everywhere. If reorganization is needed, let us join a technical rather than a “food” university, such as the Russian State Technological University named after K. Tsiolkovsky, besides it is ready to accept us,” the agency interlocutor noted.