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Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists No. 25

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.

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.

“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

Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists No. 24

T-invariant and the CISRUS Center are releasing issue No. 24 of “Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists” dated August 31, 2025

From Global Citizens to the Russian World: Deputy Speaker Celebrates Her Victory over the International Baccalaureate

The push to have the International Baccalaureate (IB) designated as an “undesirable organization” was orchestrated by Anna Kuznetsova, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma (Russia’s lower house of parliament), and, likely, the family of Konstantin Malofeev and Maria Lvova-Belova. It was Kuznetsova who requested for inspections of IB schools by prosecutors and the education oversight authority Rosobrnadzor, leading to administrative cases against teachers and administrators. The “monarchist-patriotic faction” convinced the enforcement agencies that IB schools foster “global citizens” and “emphasize the protection of LGBTQ+ rights.” Within a day, most schools erased any mention of IB and submitted statements to withdraw from the organization.

Incident Date: August 26, 2025
Incident Type: Detention
Institution: Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University (SSU)

“Baccalaureate Leaders Promote Non-Traditional Values,” Claims Russia’s Prosecutor General. Elite Schools’ IB Programs Coveted by Putin’s Elite Abruptly Banned

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