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Swiss cross on Russian students: famous Zurich university imposes sanctions on them for “security reasons”

The ETH Zurich has adopted new security rules that effectively make it impossible for Russian students to enrol in the university’s master’s and doctoral programmes. T-invariant managed to speak to students who have lost the opportunity to study at this prestigious institution and to take comments from the ETH itself.

‘It’s some kind of silent conspiracy’: how the world’s media is reporting the death toll in Gaza

An international team of scientists analysed 1,371 reports of Gaza war casualties and found that the information circulated by the world’s leading media outlets was falsified. In episode 15 of the Invasion: Science in a Time of War podcast, we speak with the initiator of this study, sociologist Tatiana Glaser.

Prosecutors pulled the crystal owl over the Russian globe: how the CHGKs became undesirable

In November 2024, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation recognized the International Association of Intellectual Games (IAIG) as an undesirable organization. This absurd, at first glance, decision was preceded by a long history of ethical transformation and split of the once united intellectual community. Today, this confrontation looks like it was caused by a war, and everyone writes about it. However, it is based on deep contradictions and psychological deformations that have been embedded since Soviet times.

Sovereign Journals for Sovereign Science: How the System of Scientific Periodicals in Russia is Collapsing

The redistribution of the market for the publication and distribution of academic scientific journals has led not only to serious delays in the publication of scientists’ works, but also to Russia’s self-isolation in the global market of scientific periodicals. By the beginning of December 2024, almost 75% of Russian academic scientific journals have not gone to press on time. This is the price of striving to publish scientific journals with a “Russian identity” and without foreign influence. T-invariant tells us what has already happened to Russian scientific periodicals and what else may happen to them.

Dmitry Kizhmenev

Дата инцидента: 16 декабря 2024
Тип нарушения: обвинение в госизмене
Учреждение: РФЯЦ-ВНИИЭФ (Российский федеральный ядерный центр — Всероссийский научно-исследовательский институт экспериментальной физики), Саров

Сводка: 16 декабря 2024 в Нижегородский областной суд поступило дело 39-летнего жителя города Сарова Дмитрия Кижменева по статьям о подделке документов (часть 4 статьи 327 УК), попытке выезда из России, несмотря на ограничение в связи с допуском к гостайне (часть 3 статьи 30, часть 1 статьи 283.2 УК) и госизмене (статья 275 УК), сообщает Медиазона.

Источники: Медиазона, Kasparov.ru.

The Joyous Science. An Essay on the Biography and Scientific Activity of George Gamow

The fifteenth essay in the series “Creators” is dedicated to Georgy Gamov, an outstanding physicist and cosmologist, professor at George Washington University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, who made a huge contribution to nuclear physics, cosmology and theoretical biology. Together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) T-invariant continues publishing the series of biographical essays “Creators”.

Major demographic shocks of the 21st century

Current demographic dynamics suggest radical changes around the world. Fertility will fall everywhere, but the main problems are not related to this, but to uneven population growth in different countries. Scientists predict a huge increase in the proportion of Africans by 2100 and a marked depopulation of Europe and North America. Alexander Markov and Olga Orlova discuss the main demographic shocks in the 10th episode of the CounterEvolution podcast.

Andrei Yakovlev: “It will not be the late USSR, but a thawed outcast with a nuclear truncheon”

Today one can hear more and more often that Russia in the coming decades will live under “eternal Putin”. The political regime is stable, the economy shows stability. Will the country turn into the USSR 2.0 or into an “orthodox Iran”? Are there prerequisites for regime change in Russia? T-invariant spoke to Andrei Yakovlev, a well-known economist and associate researcher at the Davis Centre at Harvard University.

Leaders of education. Who leads universities in Russia?

Viktor Sadovnichy, the 85-year-old rector of Moscow State University, has been reappointed for a seventh term. This is not quite a typical situation: today the average age of a rector is under 60. T-invariant has studied the biographies of the heads of Russian universities in detail and realised that the problem with the rector corps is different: it is remarkably monotonous, as if they have specially selected people according to the average statistical pattern. Both the rector of Moscow State University and the heads of unremarkable regional universities have similar biographies and typical careers.