The Best Universities Will Remain a Secret

The Best Universities Will Remain a Secret

The policy of protectiveness is killing the goal of making the list of the ten countries with the best education systems. Dmitry Dubrovsky, Daria Skibo   Photo: “Considering the continuous pressure of sanctions on Russia, universities must minimize the...
The State’s People

The State’s People

Researchers and professors at Russian universities are increasingly dependent on the state. Who represents their interests in this relationship? Pavel Kudyukin   Photo: The principal defining characteristic of the Russian academic community is the fact that,...
A State that Is Always There with You

A State that Is Always There with You

Is it possible to discuss academic freedom outside the context of the political regime? Elizaveta Potapova Photo: The presence of the state—or, more accurately, the fantasy of the state—is tangible at any level, starting with the individual one. (Photo by Ant Rozetsky...
Mnemopolitics against the Freedom of Historical Research

Mnemopolitics against the Freedom of Historical Research

Instruments of memory politics increasingly resemble instruments of official ideological control over history. Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: Album on the history of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1926). Wikimedia Commons   Politics as applied to...