الجامعة الروسية لصداقة الشعوب
In June 1993, Filippov was elected as the Rector of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia until 1998, when he was appointed as the Minister of education of the Russian Federation and held this post during the work of four RF Cabinets of ministers. In 1999 Federal program of the development of Russian education for 2000–2004 was adopted by the Russian Government and signed into the RF Law. It envisaged annual allocation of substantial money from the state budget for the development of Russian education in addition to the existing financing.