George Kistiakowsky — the Unknown Father of the American Bomb
His ideal was a quiet university job, but life made him a "merchant of death. Georgy Kistyakowsky's name does not…
«In Russia the measure of a scientist’s influence is the measure of his guilt»
What happens to Russian Studies in the general field of social sciences and humanities after the start of the war?…
The unreachable self-sufficiency
What won't allow to build in isolation a mathematics comparable in power and diversity with the Soviet one? The intellectual…
Steampunk and Thinking Crystal
Artificial Intelligence is preparing to supplant copyright. It radically changes the notion of «copy» underlying copyright protection. In fact, the…
«The strike is directed at a wrong target»
Breaking international ties with Russian scientists will lead to results directly opposite to those hoped for by Ukrainian scientists who…
Two brave and a chatbot
An international boycott of scientists for their government's war? Even anti-war-minded people are divided over such measures. Many do not…
Berlin Wall 2
Ukrainian scientists have appealed to the international community to boycott their Russian colleagues. However, such a boycott conflicts with a…
Europe’s «Strait Gate» to the Future
Despite the energy crisis, the European Union is not abandoning its Green Deal and is increasing efforts to develop environmentally…
«It is not only the Russian economy that is mobilizing for war, but also science»
Survey (Issue 2): How has the war affected Russian science and scientists? Although global science did not affected much, the…
How codes of the underworld leads to military aggression
Peacetime sociology cannot yet explain how a full-scale war became possible in twenty-first-century Europe. Sociologist Svetlana Stephenson discusses the reasons…
The Relict Radiation of Mathematics
How Russian mathematics lost to the war. Is there any chance, in the conditions of external isolation, to preserve a…
War and Language: The Russian Master’s Program in Prague
Charles University opens a Master's program in Russian. Why it was in demand amidst the war, explains Zhanna Nemtsova, co-director…