Автор: Yuliya Chernaya
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By the Color of Their Passport: Sanctions Control Rules Applied to Scientists Now Extended to Students
In several European countries simultaneously, Russian students have been banned from studying IT-related specialties. Cases have also emerged of restrictions on admission (for example, to the politically sensitive program “Arctic Shipping”). Previously, export-control procedures applied only to university and research-center employees, visiting researchers, and collaboration participants; now the same checks are being applied to students.…
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“Professors have no right to drag ideological preferences into the university.” Marina Kalashnikova on the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences in Montenegro
The Russian authorities, through Rosobrnadzor, are dismantling Shaninka (the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, MSSES). T-invariant spoke with Marina Kalashnikova, former dean of Shaninka’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, now leading the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences in Montenegro. Was it challenging to explain the program to Montenegrins? How did the…
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“This Bridge was Burned”. Why did Young Scientists from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus not Find a Place in the United States?
Fellows of the prestigious Fulbright program faced big problems after the program’s sponsors (IIE and Cultural Vistas) were recognized as undesirable organizations in Russia in March 2024. T-invariant reported on this in detail last summer. What is happening today with young scientists from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine?
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Everything Has Already Been Written on Tor. Russian Scientists Cut Off from Up-to-Date Research Databases
In January, it became known that bioRxiv—a vital tool for researchers in the natural sciences—had become inaccessible in Russia. Investigating this situation, T-invariant sought to determine how frequently and for what purposes Russian scientists and educators rely on VPNs in their work, as well as how YouTube’s throttling has impacted their research and outreach efforts.