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The supercomputer is captured by the FSB

The Russian Federation’s leading specialist in supercomputer systems was first checked by the FSB “for treason”, then kept under house arrest for six months on suspicion of “financing an extremist organization”. After fruitless attempts to plant according to the proven Soviet tradition, the “fool” is used. Sergei Abramov, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, founder of a number of innovative companies, is planned to be sent to a psychiatric hospital for three weeks on November 30 for “conducting an inpatient examination.”Because the outpatient motivation of the scientist who organizes the supercomputer forum in Pereslavl-Zalessky, even while under investigation, the FSB could not understand even after eight months.

Condemning the Hamas Attack on Israel and Rejecting Hate Speech: A Public Response to a Colleague

T-invariant publish open letter by Alexander Kabanov, Mescal S. Ferguson Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery Chapel Hill, UNC. He writes: “The terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, shocked me deeply. I was also disappointed by the statement issued by the UNC Chapel Hill Faculty, Graduate Students, and Staff Regarding Justice in Palestine, which said, among other things, “…We believe that an understanding of such loss must be situated within the historical and political context of ongoing colonial oppression.” On November 3, 2023, I sent a brief note to about 40 UNC faculty members who had signed this statement by then…”

Igor Efimov: “It will take decades to restore Russian science after Putin…”

How do Russian-speaking scientists work in America today during the war in Ukraine? Why is it important to maintain contact with colleagues from the countries of the former USSR? What awaits Russian science after Putin? We talked about these and other topics with Igor Efimov, professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, first president of RASA.

“The state is the parent who beats”, “mobilized and isolated security forces” and “Russia is like a blossoming lotus”

In Chicago, at the annual conference of the Russian-speaking American Scientific Association (RASA), sociologists who have recently been living in the United States chose for their presentations topics that can now hardly be discussed publicly while in Russia. Sergey Erofeev (Rutgers University)presented a brief overview of the most interesting presentations for T-invariant.

European University at St. Petersburg

Date of incident: November 11, 2023
Type of violation: administrative protocol
Institution: European University at St. Petersburg

Summary: Two protocols were drawn up against the European University at St. Petersburg for participating in the activities of an “undesirable organization.” The administrative case materials have been received by the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg, Mediazona reports.

Sources: Mediazona, European University at St. Petersburg

Date of incident: November 10, 2023
Type of violation: fine, dismissal
Institution: Ural Technological College (branch of MEPhI in Zarechny)

Summary: The Beloyarsky District Court fined Ivan Zolotov, a teacher from Zarechny (Sverdlovsk Region), 40 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). As Zolotov told It’s My City, the court accused him of publishing anti-war poems on his personal page on VKontakte.

Sources: It’s My City, “Kommersant”.

Dmitry Tolstenko

Date of incident: November 8, 2023
Type of violation: fine
Institution: Crimean Federal University

Summary: Associate Professor Dmitry Tolstenko was fined 32,000 rubles for displaying the symbols of an “extremist” organization and for “discrediting” the Russian army. Police detained Tolstenko at the university before a lecture, Krym.Realii reports.

Sources: Krym.Realii, Krymsky SMERSH

Joan of Arc from Ivanovo

In Ivanovo, under strange circumstances, Olga Nazarenko, associate professor of the department of pharmacology of the Ivanovo State Medical Academy and political activist, died from numerous injuries. The lawyer was unable to get an investigation into the causes of her death and gain access to a medical report on the causes of death, so she is going conduct your own investigation. T-invariant spoke with the lawyer of the deceased and some other local activists who knew Olga personally and mourn her death.

Irina Sedelnikova

Date of incident: November 7, 2023
Type of violation: suspended sentence, ban on teaching
Institution: RANEPA branch in Nizhny Novgorod

Summary: In Nizhny Novgorod, former RANEPA teacher Irina Sedelnikova was sentenced to 3 years of suspended sentence with a two-year probationary period and a ban on teaching under the article on “fakes about the army”, the Nizhny Novgorod Political Red Cross reports. The denunciation of Irina Sedelnikova was written by her students.

Sources: Reporter-NN, Nizhny Novgorod Political Red Cross.

“We will have to live and work in a world where there are two wars”

In Chicago, at Northwestern University, an annual conference was held, organized by the Russian-American Association of Scientists – Russian American Science Association (RASA). Mutual support, academic solidarity, political context and political division in the scientific community – in report by Denis Cheredov.

And Jupiter is ours, and Europe is ours

The Special Economic Zone (SEZ) “Alabuga”, which has already hit the pages of all the world’s media this year with a series of high-profile scandals, this time swung at the solar system and acted as a collective Ostap Bender for all the money – namely 491 trillion rubles . Leading Russian astrophysicists responded by recalling the gravitsappa on the Yubileiny satellite (a loud anti-scientific failure of Roscosmos from 2008).