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...
Academic Freedom or Useful Knowledge?

Academic Freedom or Useful Knowledge?

Under the impact of the pandemic, governments intend to increase the share of useful research. We are witnessing the formation of new reference points for science policy.   Irina Dezhina   Photo: Why do countries that spend billions of dollars on fundamental...
What Kind of History Will Investigators Write?

What Kind of History Will Investigators Write?

With the passage of constitutional amendments in Russia, limitations on historical research have taken on a constitutional character. Ivan Kurilla   Photo: Over the course of the past two decades, the government has been transforming the Great Patriotic War into...
“We are the University”

“We are the University”

A new Free University, organized by professors who resigned or were dismissed from the Higher School of Economics, is opening in Moscow. Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo: You can only study online at the new university. (Website screenshot)   Free Universities of the...