Allowing students to get a broader education sounds good to me. Even if not strictly classroom knowledge, being in a new culture would help them have a better range of experiences. Something that I think many people could use in North America, mean including me.
I'd be jealous I couldn't do it but never to the point I wouldn't want it for newer generations.
Mean of for ruse grants and scholarships sound good too don't get me wrong on that, helping educate is so sorely needed it seems.
Fuck Russia with a barbed pole (and I don't mean someone from Poland if they're getting ideas).