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...
Universities Are Drowning in Paperwork

Universities Are Drowning in Paperwork

What is the use of inquiries by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education to Russian public universities? Learn more in this new article from the Center for Institutional Analysis of Science and Education at the European University at St. Petersburg. Katerina Guba...
Turning Yourself in to Competent Authorities

Turning Yourself in to Competent Authorities

The Attorney’s Office suggests that universities search for dissidents among their faculty and students. What’s behind inter-district prosecutor Prostakov’s letter to one of Russia’s major universities? Dmitry Dubrovsky   PHOTO: The “experiment” in the Academy of...