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We Recognize Marxism in Modern Ideologies.” Professor Anna Krylov — on the Harm of DEI, the Dangers of Censorship, Trump’s Reforms, and Cancel Culture

November 15–16, 2025, in New Jersey, the Gamow Prize ceremony, established by RASA, will take place. One of this year’s laureates is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California, Anna Krylov. In October, she announced a boycott of the Nature Publishing Group, refusing to peer-review a manuscript for the journal Nature Communications — due to disagreement with the policy of promoting the social justice agenda. T-invariant spoke with Anna Krylov about why politics has no place in science, what scientists can be canceled for, and how to resist scientific censorship.

No Mosquito in the Ointment: How Russia Doomed a Vital Scientific Initiative in Africa

In August 2025, the promising Target Malaria project aimed at combating malaria using modified mosquitoes was abruptly shut down in Burkina Faso. The country’s government sealed the laboratories, destroyed the insects, and sprayed insecticides, labeling the experiment a threat to sovereignty. Many scientists from around the world called this decision a catastrophe: gene drive technology could have permanently rid Africa of malaria, which claims 600,000 lives annually. T-Invariant has uncovered how a Russian-coordinated disinformation campaign, anti-Western sentiments, and local activists led to the halt of one of the continent’s most promising scientific projects.

Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists No. 25

T-invariant and the CISRUS center are releasing another press release “Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists” No. 25 dated September 30, 2025. The first issue of “Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists” was published exactly two years ago on September 30, 2023. Today we will summarize some results of the work of the repressive machine of the Russian authorities.

Rustam Kaibyshev

Incident Date: October 30, 2025
Violation Type: in custody
Institution: BelSU

From a “Hooligan University” to a “State Civilization”: How Nikita Anisimov Turned HSE into an Ordinary Russian University in Just a Few Years

Over the past three and a half years of active sanctions policy, only four rectors of Russian universities have been added to Western “blacklists.” The most prominent among them is Nikita Anisimov, only the second rector in the history of the Higher School of Economics (HSE). T-invariant reports on how, under his leadership, HSE has once again outpaced all other universities, but this time — in militarization, promotion of the pro-war ‘Z’ ideology, participation in the Kremlin’s propaganda machine, and direct involvement — by Anisimov himself, his team, and even students — on the front lines and in occupied territories.

The Perils of the Pivot East: Why Serious Scientists Are Now Teaming Up with Fraudsters

Recently, Russian scientists, whose scientific portfolios include hundreds of significant achievements, have unexpectedly begun utilizing co-authors from the Middle East and Southeast Asia with questionable reputations. Is this phenomenon related to the reorientation of Russian science “to the east”? This is discussed in the new issue of “Plagiarism Navigator.

Leonid Pshenichnov

Incident Date: October 20, 2025
Incident Type: arrest
Institution: Institute of Fisheries, Marine Ecology and Oceanography, Kyiv

Assault on Sovereignty, or The Kremlin Kicks the Dog. Why Members of Russia’s Anti-War Committee Were Accused of Attempting a Violent Seizure of Power

Russia’s FSB has opened a criminal case, accusing Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of the Anti-War Committee of attempting a violent takeover and forming a terrorist organization. The list of the accused includes Eugene Koonin, head of the Evolutionary Genomics Laboratory at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and member of the T-invariant coordinating council, as well as tech entrepreneur Mikhail Kokorich, founder and CEO of Destinus. T-invariant has learned just how unexpected these charges of especially grave crimes were for them and how they might impact their lives.

Incident Date: 14 October, 2025
Incident Type: Criminal Prosecution
Institution: London Business School

Konstantin Chumakov

Incident Date: October 14, 2025
Incident Type: criminal prosecution
Institution: George Washington University

Incident Date: October 14, 2025
Incident Type: Criminal Prosecution
Institution: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Academic Freedom is Eroding Even in Democracies: New Report from Scholars at Risk

Each year, the organization Scholars at Risk (SAR) releases the Free to Think report, which acts as a global barometer for academic freedom. The latest edition, published on October 1, 2025, highlights a troubling trend: since 2018, declines in academic freedom metrics have emerged not just in autocracies but also in long-established democracies. The report, covering July 2024 to June 2025, documents 395 attacks worldwide. Although the total numbers show only a modest increase from the previous year, incidents threatening the physical safety of students and faculty have nearly doubled.

Russian Books in Exile: Secret Routes and Bookish Heroes

Following the start of the war, dozens of Russian-language small presses sprang up beyond Russia’s borders. Recently, their representatives — Aglaia Asheshova (“Turgenev Library”), Igor Ivanov (Skaryna Press), Yakov Klots (Tamizdat Project), Evgeny Kogan (“Babel Books,” Tel Aviv), Maxim Kurnikov (“Echo Book”), and Alexander Gavrilov (Vidim Books) — gathered for a panel discussion at the “Prague Book Tower” book fair (Sept’25).

“Not an Enemy, but a Friend of the People”: The Trial of a Kurchatov Institute Employee

The Gatchina District Court has resumed hearings in the case of Dmitry Bogmut, a technician at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named after B.P. Konstantinov (part of the Kurchatov Institute). After the onset of the war in Ukraine, Bogmut posted anti-war videos in a private thread on a forum with only a dozen users. He has been held in a pre-trial detention center for a year and a half and faces up to ten years in prison. Court hearings are regularly attended by a crowd of men in camouflage, seemingly organized as “extras”, identified as “Donbas volunteers.” Meanwhile, the names of activists supporting Bogmut have been publicly disclosed by state news agencies, leading to threats against them.

Next-Generation Skin: How a Tel Aviv Innovation Accelerates Burn Healing

Laboratory-grown skin grafts are already part of the medical toolkit. However, a project from Tel Aviv University, supported by Zimin Institutes, promises a breakthrough in near-authentic skin transplant: dense, elastic, and multi-layered. In experimental mice, hair even grows at the burn site. T-Invariant explores how this technology was developed and how close it is to clinical application.

Date of incident: September 19, 2025
Incident Type: Foreign Agent
Institution: Independent Investigator

Incident Date: September 8, 2025
Incident Type: Administrative Prosecution
Institution: Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University (YSPU)

Incident Date: September 5, 2025
Incident Type: Foreign Agent
Institution: Harvard University

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