by Umnov | Dec 3, 2020 | blog
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...
by Umnov | Nov 20, 2020 | blog
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...
by Umnov | Nov 4, 2020 | blog
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...
by Umnov | Oct 19, 2020 | blog
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...
by Umnov | Oct 5, 2020 | blog
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...
by Umnov | Sep 28, 2020 | blog
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...
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