Confrontation or Obscurity?

Confrontation or Obscurity?

What awaits Russian science under sanctions Irina Dezhina   Photo: Those most affected by the sanctions were more mobile scientists and young researchers, as well as leading research institutes and universities. Photo by FlyD on Unsplash   Historical Retrospective In...
Death in the Public Sphere

Death in the Public Sphere

The experience of war is changing Russian society, deforming attitudes towards death. Oleg Reut   Photo: The “problematic” memory of the dead is inconvenient primarily for politicians speaking on behalf of the state. Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash   How...
The Re-Sovietization of Human Rights

The Re-Sovietization of Human Rights

Russian human rights education has been forced to revert to the patterns of the 70s, where Soviet conceptions are combined with pro-war propaganda and a complete inversion of international law. Dmitry Dubrovskiy   Although the USSR participated in preparing the...
War Trauma

War Trauma

Psychology recognizes several defensive responses to trauma: adaptation, denial, and resistance. How has the reality of the war set in for Russian scientists? Oleg Mironov   Photo: As a consequence of the war, some scientific associations were dissolved and...
“Anti-Russia”

“Anti-Russia”

Ukraine and Ukrainians in Russian higher education and science Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: Denying the statehood of Ukraine—a stance that used to be part of the official discourse in Russia—is now being framed in university history courses as a “scientific approach to...