Recruitment of students into the Unmanned Aerial Systems Forces (UASF) of the Russian Army is turning into a new wave of mobilization. Four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense, with the assistance of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, is replenishing troop numbers by drawing on students from colleges and universities. T-invariant examines how the mechanisms for recruiting contract soldiers have changed in recent months: first it was students from technical universities, then those facing expulsion, and now it has reached all students.

In episode 16 of the podcast Invasion: Science in a Time of War, two scientists talk anonymously about how quickly one can become a “traitor to the motherland” for the leadership, how school principals are caught between the political hammer and the educational anvil, and how difficult it is to maintain relationships with colleagues who have left Russia. And also about how people who shared Ukraine’s couch just yesterday got at the helm of higher education.

In episode 15 of the podcast Invasion: Science in a Time of War, two scientists anonymously reveal that they consider both those who left and those who continue to work in Russian universities to be martyrs, and that it is no longer possible to be “ironically silent” about the NWO. They also tell us how students today are forbidden to deal with acute social topics, but are forced to study the question of “why young people join youth movements”.

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.

Since September 1, a number of Russian universities have begun training “information warfare specialists”. Such programs were “tested” even before the full-scale invasion, but this year there have been significantly more of them. T-invariant found out which universities have such programs and who will teach students propaganda.

The internal German resistance to the National Socialist dictatorship is a phenomenon that is not well known to anyone other than specialists. Nevertheless, there were many hotbeds of such struggle. T-invariant tells the story of a group of scientists and teachers who united around professors from the University of Freiburg. Its members worked closely with other German resistance groups and, despite the risk of exposure and threats to their lives, remained true to their professional and civic duty.

At the beginning of March 2022, graduate students of the European University in Florence Emil Kamalov and Ivetta Sergeeva, political scientist Margarita Zavadskaya and sociologist Nika Kostenko launched a sociological project OutRush, during which they surveyed three waves of those who left. Who are these people, what do they do, what do they think about returning home, what do they hope for? Nika Kostenko, a researcher at Tel Aviv University, talks about the results of the T-invariant study.

Who are they – convinced patriots who brought the advance of the “Russian world” closer? Or banal opportunists who took advantage of the situation for mercantile purposes? T-invariant presents the results of a study of the biographies of heads of universities located in the occupied Ukrainian territories.

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and the European Organization for Nuclear Research may sever official relations as early as this week.

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.

In the third year after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, journalism faculties and media departments at all universities in the country changed their policies. the transfer of experience to novice journalists from military officers, Z-bloggers and even former prisoners has become regular and widespread.

Vladimir Putin updated and expanded scientific council at the Security Council of the Russian Federation. T-invariant analyzed the biographies of all its 174 members. The median age of the council is pre-retirement, 63.5 years. The oldest member is 94 years old.