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? At the author’s request, the name is not published Photo: The principal defining characteristic of the Russian...
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? At the author’s request, the name is not published Photo: The number of requests from the Ministry of Education and Science to state universities is...
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...
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