Category: Chronicles of persecution of scientists

Date of incident: 10/26/2022 Type of violation: Dismissal Institution: Saint Petersburg State University Summary: On October 26, 2022, Denis Skopin, a professor at Saint Petersburg State University (SPbGU), was fired after protesting against the mobilization of men liable for military service in Russia. Sources: RFERL Bumaga

Date of incident: October 5, 2022 Type of violation: dismissal Institution: branch of the Institute of Transport, Service and Tourism in the village of Vorotynets, Nizhny Novgorod Region Summary: Olga Lizunkova taught English and German in the Nizhny Novgorod region. On September 22, 2022, after a couple, one of the students wrote a denunciation of…

Date of incident: September 21, 2022 Types of violation: dismissal, criminal case for “discrediting the Russian army”. Institution: Ivanovo Medical Academy. Summary: February 26, 2022 Olga Nazarenko, PhD in Medicine, was detained in Ivanovo along with other activists. On February 27, Olga held a solo picket, but 30 minutes later she was detained by the…

June 2, 2022 Type of violation:arrest, sentence to 8 and a half years in prison Institution:M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Summary:On June 2, 2022, Dmitry Ivanov was accused of  “dissemination of defamatory information about the Russian military based on political hatred”,  says “Protest Moscow State University” telegram channel. On March 7, 2023, Dmitry Ivanov was…

Date of incident: May 27, 2022 Type of violation: dismissal, fine Institution: Kazan Federal University Summary: The Academic Council of Kazan Federal University (KFU) did not renew the contract with Professor Nail Fatkullin, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. In early May 2022, he circulated among his colleagues an open letter demanding an end to…

Date of incident: March 17, 2022. Type of violation: arrest. Institution: Kazan Federal University. Summary: Kazan activists have not received approval for a mass picket in support of Andrey Boyarshinov, who has been in jail for over a year. The Executive Committee of Kazan did not approve the purpose of the action, considering it ambiguous…

April 12, 2021 Type of violation:Sentence to 12 years in a maximum security prison on charges of treason Institution:The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Summary:The case against Valery Golubkin was opened on April 12, 2021, on the same day he was arrested and sent to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. Physicist,…

Date of incident: September 30, 2020 Type of violationя: arrest, sentence to 7.5 years in a maximum security prison Institution: Tomsk State University Summary: On September 30, 2020, 64-year-old scientist Alexander Lukanin was detained on suspicion of transferring certain technologies to China. On October 20, 2022, the Tomsk Regional Court found physicist Alexander Lukanin guilty…

February 15, 2019 Type of violation:arrest, sentence to 20 years in a maximum security prison Institution:Moscow Aviation Institute Summary:On February 15, 2019, Alexey Vorobyov was arrested by the Meshchansky Court of Moscow at the request of the FSB. On April 23, 2021, he was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security prison for treason.…