Universities as Tools of Power Irina Busygina Photo: For university rectors, playing by the rules does not entail uncovering the “great big...
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From the Personal to the Global
Drivers and Consequences of Russia’s Academic Isolationism. Theodore P. Gerber Photo: The...
Between Repression and Boycotts
What goals do sanctions against Russian academia actually achieve? Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo:...
Scientific Fraud in Russia and Post-Soviet Countries
Scale, mechanisms, and countermeasures to combat the issue Andrey Rostovtsev Photo: The same...
Science Is Female
Contemporary Reflections on the Role of Women in Russian Academia Ekaterina Zibrova Photo: The...
Back to the USSR?
Part 1: The Structure of Interactions between Science, Higher Education, and the State in the...
Russian Scientists in the USA
Emigration is an attempt to preserve one’s scientific identity in a world where borders have...
Russian Scientists in Search of Utopian Freedom
Why specialists who have left the country are combining formal institutionalized activities with...
Strategies and Survival Scenarios for Russian Scientists
Part 2: Abroad Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo: A number of countries have introduced a visa ban, and...
Strategies and Survival Scenarios for Russian Scientists
Part 1: Within the Country Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo: At least a third of the research budget...
Academic Freedom: Freedom from Restriction or Opportunity for Growth?
A study of the discourse of Russian and Kazakh teachers. Irina Chudova Photo: The understanding...
“White Lists” in Search of Sovereignty
Russia has compiled lists of scientific journals and publications that can be counted by...
Academic Freedom, Kazakhstani Style
A new study examines the barriers academics face and how their experiences and demographics...
Anti-Extremism the Russian Way
Violations of academic freedom under the slogan of “protecting the constitutional order” Dmitry...
Academies at the Crossroads
The Evolution of Academies of Sciences in Post-Soviet Central Asia Aikerim Bektemirova Photo:...
2024: The War Has Become Routine
In the third year of Russian aggression against Ukraine, violations of freedom on Russian soil...
Suppressed Collectives and Protesting Individuals
Why didn’t Russia's final liberal arts institute become the center of anti-war protests? Victor...
“We in the Russian Federation Must Focus on Ourselves”
What are anti-war Russians in academia saying? Elena Pavlova Photo: Discussions abroad have...
“Do Your Job and Don’t Try to Do Someone Else’s”?
Debates on models of academic freedom. Part 2 Dmitry Dubrovsky In Part 1 of this article, we...
“Do Your Job and Don’t Try to Do Someone Else’s”?
Debates on models of academic freedom. Part 1 Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo: Where do competing...
When Was Teaching More Free?
When academic freedom is reduced to funding and accountability to funders, the Soviet period seems...
2000-2022: From Putin the Reformer to Putin the Conservative
Academic freedom in Russia began to deteriorate long before the launch of full-scale hostilities....
Gift-Giving in the Academic Environment
The specifics of networking to promote your people and those loyal to your cause. Part 2 Katja...
Gift-Giving in the Academic Environment
The specifics of networking to promote your people and those loyal to your cause. Part 1 Katja...
Academic Freedom in Russia: Two Perspectives
Our response to the Russian Federation’s official response at the UN Dmitry Dubrovsky ...
Anonymous Tips in Post-War Academia
How Russian teachers survive after being the subject of denunciation letters. “Pandora’s Sisters”...
Academic Freedom: Global Demands and Local Responses
Conference School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Almaty Management University Almaty, 31...
Higher Education in an Era of Full-Scale War
How Russian universities are working to normalize the war Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo: “Visual...
Para-Academic Communities in Russian Science
The government may be able to censor research activities at universities, but this will not stop...
Homophobia as a Science
From “non-traditional relationship propaganda” to “LGBT extremism” Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo:...
The “Skolkovo Method”
How a little-known organization from Tolyatti became the “system-thinking-activity” forge for...