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Anonymous Tips in Post-War Academia
How Russian teachers survive after being the subject of denunciation letters. “Pandora’s Sisters”...
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...
“Scientific Anti-Americanism”
Repressive measures are affecting American educational and scientific organizations operating in...
Confrontation or Obscurity?
What awaits Russian science under sanctions Irina Dezhina Photo: Those most affected by the...
Death in the Public Sphere
The experience of war is changing Russian society, deforming attitudes towards death. Oleg Reut...
The Re-Sovietization of Human Rights
Russian human rights education has been forced to revert to the patterns of the 70s, where Soviet...
War Trauma
Psychology recognizes several defensive responses to trauma: adaptation, denial, and resistance....
“Anti-Russia”
Ukraine and Ukrainians in Russian higher education and science Dmitry Dubrovsky Photo: Denying...
Zinoviev Club vs. Academics
The issue of power at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy is resolved through...
Russian “Student Societies”
Nationalist and conservative student societies are becoming more active in Russian universities....
Can Survey Results in Russia (Not) Be Trusted?
In the last two years, Russian public opinion surveys about approval of the army’s actions in...
A Year without Academic Freedom
Rights and liberties in Russian higher education and the sciences in 2023. Dmitry Dubrovsky ...
Freedom of Academia In and Out: Social Sciences and Humanities in the Time of Geopolitical Crisis
Conference | Yerevan State University | October 19-21, 2023 Elizaveta Potapova Photo: By...
The Two Faces of Academic Freedom
Natural sciences vs. humanities: who stands to gain and who will suffer from the conservative...
Russian Social Sciences Have Entered a New Era
The shift in the political agenda has heavily influenced the scientific agenda. Mikhail Sokolov...
The Ideological Power Vertical
How the Russian state is introducing repression into the educational system Dmitry Dubrovsky...
The Science of International Collaboration
Russian medical sciences’ shift in focus toward collaboration with new partners will likely mean a...
Where to Defend Academic Freedom
The rights prescribed by the Russian Constitution and the Law on Education cannot be provided or...
Science under Double Sanctions
How the Kremlin’s politics are aggravating the crisis facing those scientists who remain in...
Is “Wokeness” Totalitarian?
Why unapologetic opponents are rejecting “wokeness,” “cancel culture,” and other 21st-century...
Education against Dictatorship
Three strategies for civic education. Part 2 Sonya Smyslova and Ella Rossman Photo: The...
Education Against Dictatorship
Three strategies for civic education. Part 1 Sonya Smyslova, Ella Rossman Photo:...
“Expert on Call”
How expert evaluations are “defending the motherland” in the era of the Special Military...
Will Social Science Research Become Mainstream?
7 Topical Titles That Will Captivate More than Just Specialists Andrei Gerasimov Photo: Any...
Ideology Disguised as History
Russian history has ceased to be a scientific discipline and has become part of the military...
The Traumatic Asphyxiation of Public Sociology
Russia is dominated by an authoritarian sociology afflicted with aphonia, aphasia, and public...
Russian Scientists Abroad: In Search of Their Place
Science and higher education in exile are trying to do the (almost) impossible. Dmitry Dubrovsky...