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Anton Klimkin
Date of incident: June 27, 2024
Type of violation: sentence of 2.5 years in prison
Institution: V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk
Summary: Anton Klimkin was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for “confidential cooperation with a foreign state.” The Tomsk Regional Court has sentenced Anton Klimkin, an employee of the Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics. He was accused of confidential cooperation with a foreign state. As a basis for the case, the FSB took an old scientific contract between the optics institute and one of the universities in China, reports First Department.
Sources: First Department, Siberia.Realities.
Type of violation: sentence of 2.5 years in prison
Institution: V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk
Summary: Anton Klimkin was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for “confidential cooperation with a foreign state.” The Tomsk Regional Court has sentenced Anton Klimkin, an employee of the Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics. He was accused of confidential cooperation with a foreign state. As a basis for the case, the FSB took an old scientific contract between the optics institute and one of the universities in China, reports First Department.
Sources: First Department, Siberia.Realities.
Tamara Eidelman
Date of incident: June 24, 2024
Type of violation: criminal prosecution
Institution: independent researcher, former history teacher, School No. 67, Moscow
Summary: On June 24, 2024, a criminal case was opened against historian Tamara Eidelman (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) for the rehabilitation of Nazism, the Moscow prosecutor’s office reports. Eidelman is charged with the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Sources: Current Time, Interfax.
Type of violation: criminal prosecution
Institution: independent researcher, former history teacher, School No. 67, Moscow
Summary: On June 24, 2024, a criminal case was opened against historian Tamara Eidelman (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) for the rehabilitation of Nazism, the Moscow prosecutor’s office reports. Eidelman is charged with the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Sources: Current Time, Interfax.
German Historical Institute in Moscow
Incident date: June 17, 2024
Violation type: undesirable organization
Summary: On June 17, the Russian Ministry of Justice included the German Historical Institute in Moscow (Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau; DHI Moskau) in the list of undesirable organizations, reports the Parliamentary Newspaper.
Sources: RBC, Parliamentary newspaper.
Violation type: undesirable organization
Summary: On June 17, the Russian Ministry of Justice included the German Historical Institute in Moscow (Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau; DHI Moskau) in the list of undesirable organizations, reports the Parliamentary Newspaper.
Sources: RBC, Parliamentary newspaper.
“Window to the West”: how will the fate of the last channel of interaction between Russian physicists and CERN be decided?
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and the European Organization for Nuclear Research may sever official relations as early as this week.
Undesirable two years: how the Fulbright program for Russian scientists ends
Even before the war with Ukraine, about 150 young Russian scientists became Fulbright scholarsand got the opportunity to study at American universities. In March of this year, the IIE and Cultural Vistas organizations sponsoring the program were declared undesirable in Russia. T-invariant looked into what awaits fellows in their home countries and what alternatives young scientists see for themselves.
Laurent Vinatier
Date of incident: June 6, 2024
Type of violation: detention
Institution: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva
Summary: On June 6, 2024, French citizen Laurent Vinatier was detained on charges of “failure to provide documents for inclusion in the register of foreign agents,” the Investigative Committee reported.
Sources: Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Agency, Meduza.
Marina Dmitrevskaya
Date of incident: June 5, 2024
Type of violation: dismissal, fine
Institution: Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (RSPI), St. Petersburg
Summary: On June 5, 2024, the editor-in-chief of the Petersburg Theatre Magazine Marina Dmitrevskaya was fired from RGISI after being fined for “discrediting the army.” She was charged under an administrative case for “discrediting the RF Armed Forces” and fined 30,000 rubles, Groza reports.
Sources: Groza, Nikolai Podsokorsky’s Telegram channel.
Type of violation: dismissal, fine
Institution: Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (RSPI), St. Petersburg
Summary: On June 5, 2024, the editor-in-chief of the Petersburg Theatre Magazine Marina Dmitrevskaya was fired from RGISI after being fined for “discrediting the army.” She was charged under an administrative case for “discrediting the RF Armed Forces” and fined 30,000 rubles, Groza reports.
Sources: Groza, Nikolai Podsokorsky’s Telegram channel.