MOSCOW, July 27Due to the development of technology, metal detectors and surveillance cameras may lose their effectiveness in monitoring participants in the Unified State Exam (USE), said the head of Rosobrnadzor Anzor Muzaev.
«»If we take the long-term perspective and the development of technology — neither cameras nor frames, I think, will help in five years… I have great fears that in five years the development of technology will lead — if we do not take the appropriate steps to do — to big problems with trust: someone will objectively go, prepare, pass, understand that this is knowledge, that it is important, and someone will try (to break the rules — ed.),» Muzaev said. 
According to him, students are already trying to use technologies, but the testing tools installed in schools are still coping. «Steps need to be taken, we are working in this direction, we have mechanisms that we use… Together with Rostelecom, we are introducing smart means of suppressing communications when the network is jammed… This is bearing fruit, but technologies are not standing still,» the agency's source clarified.
Muzaev added that the tools that can be used by exam violators are being modernized. «The task during the exam is to select the best so that they come to budget places, study, and become specialists,» the head of the department concluded.
During the main period of the 2024 Unified State Exam, 768 people were removed for disturbing the order: 220 schoolchildren for phones, 337 for cheat sheets, and 211 for other reasons. In total, over 665 thousand participants took the exam.