While Russian community is getting tired of never ending reforms that do not seem to lead to positive consequences but are always implemented at a country-wide scale, a number of very successful regional or local innovations have not been noticed or were neglected although the outcomes they have produced have been visible and impressive.

In this article we will look at the most successful international projects which were either launched in Krasnoyarsk or in which Krasnoyarsk teachers have successfully participated in order to find out why most of these projects have eventually been discontinued and why a few of them have survived. The reason we call these projects successful is that at a certain stage they have been positively assessed by regional and federal authorities and foreign experts and that they were highly regarded in the professional community.