by Umnov | Jan 26, 2021 | blog
The policy of protectiveness is killing the goal of making the list of the ten countries with the best education systems. Dmitry Dubrovsky, Daria Skibo Photo: “Considering the continuous pressure of sanctions on Russia, universities must minimize the...
by Umnov | Jan 13, 2021 | blog
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,...
by Umnov | Dec 18, 2020 | blog
Academic Rights and Freedoms 2020: Wrapping Up Our Blog’s First Year Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo: Complicated results of 2020. Academic rights and freedoms are no exception. (Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash) The Year of Intensified Isolation Reciprocal...
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...
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