Academic Freedom in Russia: Two Perspectives

Academic Freedom in Russia: Two Perspectives

Our response to the Russian Federation’s official response at the UN Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: The Russian delegation to the UN’s official response to the questions of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education is a classic example of “responding without...
Anonymous Tips in Post-War Academia

Anonymous Tips in Post-War Academia

How Russian teachers survive after being the subject of denunciation letters. “Pandora’s Sisters” Photo: The victims have no opportunity to fully familiarize themselves, in a relaxed environment, with the content of the complaint, nor to learn the name of their...
Higher Education in an Era of Full-Scale War

Higher Education in an Era of Full-Scale War

How Russian universities are working to normalize the war Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: “Visual propaganda” also works to normalize the war. Photo: Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons   According to the...
Para-Academic Communities in Russian Science

Para-Academic Communities in Russian Science

The government may be able to censor research activities at universities, but this will not stop the discussion of scientific issues on independent platforms. Petr Torkanovsky   Photo: Researchers create para-academic channels—grassroots communities, reading...
Homophobia as a Science

Homophobia as a Science

From “non-traditional relationship propaganda” to “LGBT extremism” Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: Even before February 2022, homophobia was becoming increasingly widespread in Russian academia. Photo by Stainless Images on Unsplash   Homophobia has long been a...
The “Skolkovo Method”

The “Skolkovo Method”

How a little-known organization from Tolyatti became the “system-thinking-activity” forge for personnel at Russian universities. Ekaterina Trubnikova   Photo: Virtually no critical analysis of Skolkovo’s activities is to be found in the media or scientific...