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In memoriam astrologiae. Why do academics continue to bury astrology?

The Russian Academy of Sciences issued a memorandum “On the pseudoscience of astrology.” In dark times, even stating obvious things becomes a struggle for normality and resistance to chaos. We did a kind of backstage, telling some interesting facts about the preparation of the memorandum and the work of the Commission.

Stanislav Kozlovsky

Date: 12/19/2023
Type of violation: forced resignation
Institution: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Summary: The Psychology Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University forced associate professor Stanislav Kozlovsky to resign. According to Kozlovsky, the management expects that the Ministry of Justice will recognize him as a foreign agent on Friday (12/22/2023). The probable reason is the management of the Wikimedia.Ru project

Source: Wikipedia.Forum, Radio Liberty.

They climbed into the nozzle itself. The FSB took on the co-authors of Novosibirsk scientists accused of treason

New detainees in the case of Siberian scientists from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITPM) named after. Christianovich of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, accused of treason, was scientist Vladislav Galkin from Tomsk. The human rights organization First Department is confident that the repressive campaign is growing and the next victim of the FSB could be absolutely any scientist who has worked on this topic as part of international collaborations.

Black Shaheds will be assembled in Togliatti instead of cars

In Togliatti, in the local special economic zone (SEZ), they can build another plant for the assembly of Iranian combat drones. There is no official information about this and in words the plans are purely peaceful. The EFKO group of companies, the founder of enterprises producing drones in Tolyatti, pretends that it has nothing to do with the plant. T-invariant looks at how this big business moved from projects with GM and Volkswagen to assembling deadly machines for the war in Ukraine.

How a scientist from Odessa saved the 20th century from plague and cholera. Essay on the biography and scientific activities of Vladimir Haffkine

The fifth essay in the “Creators” series is dedicated to Vladimir (Waldemar) Haffkine, the creator of the first effective vaccines against cholera and plague. At the end of the 19th century, Haffkine carried out the first mass vaccination in India. His laboratories have developed and produced tens of millions of doses of cholera and plague vaccines. In the “Creators” project, T-inavariant, together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association), continues to publish a series of biographical essays about people from the Russian Empire who made a significant contribution to world science and technology,

Vladislav Galkin

Date: 5.12.2023
Type of violation: arrest, charge of treason
Institution: Tomsk Polytechnic University

Summary: The Sovetsky District Court of Novosibirsk arrested Vladislav Galkin, a scientist from Tomsk and associate professor at Tomsk Polytechnic University, in a case of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Acting court chair Elena Nefedova reported this to our publication T-invariant .

Sources: T-invarint, Courts of General Jurisdiction of Novosibirsk Oblast.

Academic Network Eastern Europe

Date: December 4, 2023
Type of violation: declared an undesirable organization
Institution: Academic Network Eastern Europe (Akademisches Netzwerk Osteuropa)

Summary: On December 4, 2023, RBC wrote that, according to the data in the register, the Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the organization undesirable on November 14, but the department did not report this. Kommersant writes: “The Academic Network appeared in 2020. The organization helps scientists and students from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine move to Germany to enroll in German universities or get a job in educational institutions.” Sources: RBC, Kommersant