Category: Chronicles of persecution of scientists
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Ekaterina Zhuravskaya: “Expectations from the sanctions were clearly too high”
One of the winners of the George Gamow Prize this year was Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, a professor at the Paris School of Economics. In an interview with T-invariant, she told how modern economic science works, whether it is possible to evaluate the results of sanctions and what studies of Goebbels’ propaganda can tell us about the…
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…but it is possible to sell authorship. How a Moscow company forges scientific articles and places them in foreign journals
Recently, American scientist Sam Payne received a review of his own article published three years earlier, but now its authors were five employees of Sechenov University. So the world scientific community learnt about the Russian company “International Publisher”, which is engaged in the production of fake scientific articles and places them for money in major…
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Global Challenges and the Search for Harmony in the Context of the Sakharov Paradigm
The problems of various countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Israel, the USA and China, are part of the global agenda of the future of humanity, including technological and humanistic issues that are being revised today and worry many of us. About the new “dispute of physicists and lyricists” in the context of the Sakharov paradigm “Peace,…
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Selecting the best vs academic equality: why DEI practices are not catching on in Germany
A recent article by a group of American professors on the introduction of DEI into university practice in the United States has caused a wide resonance. To what extent can DEI be considered a purely American phenomenon, and to what extent has it been assimilated by academic communities in other countries? Germany is a curious…
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Basta tollerare il regime di Putin! Un appello di studiosi del mondo intero
Due anni fa, senza aver subito attacchi precedenti di sorta, Vladimir Putin ha lanciato un’aggressione militare su vasta scala contro l’Ucraina; ne sono risultati massacri e distruzioni a livelli mai visti dalla Seconda guerra mondiale. La guerra contro l’Ucraina ha coinciso con una repressione grave e sempre maggiore contro il dissenso politico e la libertà…
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Aucune tolérance envers le régime de Poutine !
Un appel d’universitaires du monde entierAucune tolérance envers le régime de Poutine ! Un appel d’universitaires du monde entier
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¡Basta de tolerancia con el régimen de Putin!
Un llamamiento de los académicos del mundoHace dos años, Vladimir Putin inició una agresión militar no provocada contra Ucrania, causando muerte y destrucción inéditos desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La guerra contra Ucrania coincidió con una creciente y severa represión de la disidencia política y la libertad de expresión en Rusia. Hace poco, el mundo se ha quedado sobrecogido por la…
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Não mais tolerância ao regime de Putin!
Um apelo dos acadêmicos do mundoHá dois anos, Vladimir Putin iniciou uma agressão militar em larga escala não provocada contra a Ucrânia, resultando em mortes e destruição nunca vistas desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial. A guerra contra a Ucrânia coincidiu com uma repressão crescente e severa à dissidência política e à liberdade de expressão dentro da Rússia. Recentemente, o mundo…
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T-invariant and CISRUS launched a chronicle of violations of the rights and freedoms of scientists and teachers
Updates: Andrey Boyarshinov, Dmitry Ivanov, Valery Golubkin, Boris Kagarlitsky, Svetlana Drugoveyko-Dolzhanskaya. Additions: Alexander Lukanin, Alexey Vorobyov. Dismissals, fines, stigmatization, criminal cases, torture — all this awaits in Russia those who are trying to tell the truth, oppose war, protect peace, criticize the authorities or simply honestly do their academic and teaching work . T-invariant and the CISRUS…
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Svetlana Drugoveyko-Dolzhanskaya
Date of incident: September 29, 2023 Type of violation: the ethics commission of St. Petersburg State University demanded dismissal Institution: St. Petersburg State University Summary: On September 29, 2023, a meeting of the St. Petersburg State University Ethics Commission was held. The Commission received an appeal from Vice-Rector for Legal Affairs Yu. V. Penov with…
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Gleb Verdian
Date of the incident: September 7, 2023 Type of violation: conviction for treason Institution: Astrakhan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering Summary: The Moscow City Court has sentenced 21-year-old student of the Astrakhan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Gleb Verdiyan, to six years’ imprisonment in a strict penal colony for treason against…
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Valery Garbuzov
Date of the incident: September 1, 2023 Type of violation: Dismissal Institution: Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) Summary: Russian historian and political scientist Valery Garbuzov confirmed to TASS on September 2 that he was dismissed from his post as director of the Institute for U.S. and Canada…
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Azat Miftakhov
Date of incident: 25 August 2023 Type of violation: a criminal case on justification of terrorism was initiated Institution: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics Summary: A criminal case was opened against mathematician Azat Miftakhov, who in 2021 was sentenced to six years in a penal colony on charges of breaking a…
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Yulia Galyamina
Date: August 25, 2023 The court declared the dismissal illegal Institution: RANEPA Summary: The Koptevsky District Court of Moscow partially satisfied the claim of former municipal deputy, associate professor Yulia Galyamina, who challenged her dismissal from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). This is stated on the court’s website. In Galyamina’s…
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Boris Kagarlitsky
Date of incident: July 26, 2023 Type of violation: arrest, charge of justifying terrorism, fine Institution: Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Summary: July 26, 2023 The Syktyvkar City Court arrested sociologist and political scientist Boris Kagarlitsky (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation in 2018) for two months on…
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Alina Olekhnovich, Ivan Trofimov
Date of incident: July 26, 2023 Type of violation: house arrest Institution: Higher School of Economics Summary: The Basmanny District Court of Moscow placed 22-year-old Ivan Trofimov and 21-year-old Alina Olekhnovich under house arrest until September 24 in the case of participation in the activities of an extremist organization. Trofimova and Olekhnovich are students of…
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Mikhail Lobanov
Date of incident: July 7, 2023 Type of violation: dismissal Institution: Moscow State University Summary: On June 23, the Ministry of Justice recognized candidate of physical and mathematical sciences Mikhail Lobanov as a foreign agent, which technically prohibits him from teaching. Lobanov writes: “I saw a photo of the order dismissing me from the position…
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Center of Historical Memory
Date of incident: July 4, 2023 Type of violation: violation of autonomy Institution: Center of Historical Memory, Perm Summary: On July 4, the Center for Historical Memory (successor to the Perm department of the human rights research organization Memorial) was fined 300 thousand rubles in the case of “discrediting” the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 Part…
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Mikhail Belousov
Date of incident: 06/02/2023 Type of violation: dismissal Institution: St. Petersburg State University Summary: The management of St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) dismissed Mikhail Belousov, associate professor at the Institute of History, for distributing materials “discrediting the conduct of a special military operation by the armed forces of the Russian Federation and insulting the memory…
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Alexandra Arkhipova
Date of incident: May 26, 2023 Type of violation: declared as a foreign agent Institution: independent researcher Summary: The message from the Ministry of Justice says: “A.S. Arkhipova in cooperation with foreign agents took part in the production of some certain materials and participated in the distribution of these materials to an unlimited number of people. She…
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Sergey Chernyshov
Date of incident: May 26, 2023 Type of violation: recognition by a foreign agent, dismissal Institution: Novosibirsk Novocollege Summary: On May 26, college director Sergey Chernyshov was recognized as a foreign agent. The main reason is the refusal to hold “Conversations about the Important” in the college. For some time he remained the director. As…
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Mordovian State University
Date of incident: May 22, 2023 Type of violation: forced voting Institution: Mordovia State University Synopsis: Rector Dmitry Glushko forced students of Mordovian State University to vote for him in the United Russia primaries. The demands were distributed through the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law, Irina Ginzburg. Glushko plans to become a member…
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Natalia Podolyak
Date of incident: May 11, 2023 Type of violation: dismissal Institution: Siberian Institute of Business, Management and Psychology Brief: Teacher and activist Natalia Podolyak was fired from the Siberian Institute of Business, Management and Psychology, where she ran a sports club. The motivational part of the order states that the dismissal was caused by violations…
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Sergey Abramov
Date of incident: April 12, 2023 Type of violation: arrest Institution: A. K. Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute of RAS Summary: Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Abramov was arrested under the article on financing extremism (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). By a resolution of…
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Valery Zvegintsev, Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk
Date of incident: April 7, 2023 Type of violation: arrest Institution: Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Summary: On April 7, Valery Zvegintsev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, founder of the laboratory “Aerogasdynamics of High Velocities” of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch…
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Pavel Kolosnitsyn
Date of incident: April 6, 2023 Type of violation: fine Institution: Novgorod University Synopsis: In January, police drew up an administrative report against archaeologist Pavel Kolosnitsyn from Novgorod University for his comment on a post about mobilization, in which he assessed Russia’s losses in Ukraine. On February 21, the court fined Kolosnitsyn 30 thousand rubles.…
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Free University
Date of incident: March 31, 2023 Type of violation: persecution, violation of autonomy Institution: Free University Summary: In 2021, the organizers registered the Free University NGO in Latvia. On March 31, 2023, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation recognized the activity of the educational project as “undesirable”. Russian laws make it possible to bring…
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Oleg Orlov
Date of incident: March 21, 2023 Type of violation: accusation of repeated discrediting of the Russian Army Institution: Memorial. Human Rights Center Summary: As Interfax reported on March 21: “A criminal case has been opened against former board member of the liquidated International Memorial Society (convicted as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) Oleg…
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Moscow Aviation Institute
Date of incident: March 20, 2023 Type of violation: coercion to sign a summons to the military enlistment office to receive a diploma Institution: Moscow Aviation Institute Brief: Students of the Moscow Aviation Institute who graduated from the specialist’s programs reported that they are being refused diplomas until they sign the summons to the military…
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Penza State University
Date of incident: March 16, 2023 Type of violation: coercion to sign a summons to the military enlistment office to receive a diploma Institution: Penza State University Summary: In March 2023, Andrey Surkov, military commissar of the Penza Region, announced that Penza State University graduates will receive subpoenas along with their diplomas to be registered…
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Viktor Novogorsky
Date of incident: March 15, 2023 Violation type: expulsion Institution: Mari State University Summary: Third-year student Viktor Novogorsky was expelled from the Mari State University. Failure was cited as the official reason. However, the Mari Ushem organization believes that the student was expelled due to his participation in the activities of this organization, aimed at…
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Konstantin Miroshnikov
Date of incident: March 15, 2023 Type of violation: dismissal Institution: Moscow International University Synopsis: Konstantin Miroshnikov, teacher of the Introduction to Journalism course and former employee of Echo of Moscow radio station, was dismissed by agreement of the parties from Moscow International University. The dismissal was the result of denunciations. According to the author…
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Nikita Menshov
Date of incident: March 11, 2023 Type of violation: arrest Institution: Ural State Law University Summary: Freshman Nikita Menshov has become a new defendant in a criminal case of high treason. On March 11, at 5:35 am, Menshov was detained in Vladikavkaz by a patrol of the police department No. 2 of the Zaterechny district…
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SOVA Center
Date of incident: March 10, 2023 Type of violation: violation of autonomy Institution: Information and Analytical SOVA Center Brief: On March 10, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit to liquidate Information and Analysis SOVA Center. The lawsuit was filed as a result of an unscheduled inspection that took place in the organization from January…
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Elena Kabakova
Date of incident: March 7, 2023 Type of violation: fine Institution: Pyatigorsk State University Summary: The court fined Elena Kabakova, an associate professor at Pyatigorsk State University, 30,000 rubles under an article about discrediting the army because of her pacifist statements in a conversation with students. Source: Caucasian Knot
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Students of St. Petersburg State Agrarian University
Date of incident: January 26, 2023 Type of violation: threat of expulsion Institution: College of St. Petersburg State Agrarian University “Tourism” Summary: St. Petersburg State Agrarian University college students Ekaterina and Anastasia were summoned to the dean’s office because they subscribed to the Smart Voting project’s mailing list. They are threatened with expulsion, but the…
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Artem Izgagin
Date of incident: January 1, 2023 Type of violation: fine Institution: Pervouralsk Metallurgical College Summary: On January 11, Artem Izgagin, a mathematics teacher from the Pervouralsk Metallurgical College, was convicted of discrediting the Russian army. The court imposed a fine of 40 thousand rubles. After the start of the special operation, he posted several posts…
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Ilya Inishev
Date of incident: December 27, 2022 Type of violation: Dismissal Institution: Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow Summary: On December 27, 2022, the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow fired Ilya Inishev, who has been a professor at the Higher School of Economics since 2010, where he headed the master’s program in Cultural Studies.…
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Olesya Krivtsova
Date of incident: 2022 December Type of violation: house arrest, expulsion Institution: Northern (Arctic) University, Arkhangelsk Summary: In December 2022, Russian authorities placed Olesya Kryvtsova, a student at Northern (Arctic) University, under house arrest after she spoke out on social media against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Krivtsova was threatened with a term of up to…