February 2024

Russian academia in exile

Over the course of two years, several thousand scientists left Russia, sometimes entire teams were evacuated. Some of them managed not only to survive, but to be reborn in a new reality. In February 2024, the Agency for Control and Quality Assurance of Higher Education of Montenegro decided on state accreditation of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (FLASH), which was created by former employees of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences. Teodora Shanin. And this is not the only example of how fugitive Russians are reassembling academic projects.

Special academic operation.
How the FSB has been persecuting scientists who signed a letter against the war with Ukraine for two years in a row

T-invariant opens a series of publications related to the second anniversary of the war with Ukraine. In the first investigation, we tell how the FSB of the Russian Federation launched the largest “case of scientists” in modern Russia, pursuing the signatories of an anti-war letter throughout the country.

Nothing is Ambiguous.
From the Editors and Coordination Council of T-invariant

On February 16, 2024, came the terrible news — Alexei Navalny was killed. His death has become a personal tragedy for millions of people. Putin's regime has shown that it will stop at no crime in pursuit of its goals.

The Air Routes. The Essay on the biography and scientific activity of Igor Sikorsky

The seventh essay in the “Creators” series is dedicated to Igor Sikorsky, one of the founders of modern aviation. In the “Creators” project, T-invariant together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) continues to publish a series of biographical essays about people from the Russian Empire who made significant contributions to world science and technology.

Sergei Abramov: “I’m afraid that Russia is shooting itself not in the foot, but in the head”

In 2023, the FSB began subjecting dissenters to punitive psychiatry. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Abramov left the psychiatric hospital after the examination and became familiar with the updated version of the charges. T-invariant spoke with the scientist about his life with the “extremist” label, his political views and the reasons for the security forces’ attack on the Russian supercomputer industry.

Russian academia in exile

Special academic operation. How the FSB has been persecuting scientists who signed a letter against the war with Ukraine for two years in a row

Nothing is Ambiguous.From the Editors and Coordination Council of T-invariant

The Air Routes. The Essay on the biography and scientific activity of Igor Sikorsky

Sergei Abramov: “I’m afraid that Russia is shooting itself not in the foot, but in the head”

Special academic operation.
How the FSB has been persecuting scientists who signed a letter against the war with Ukraine for two years in a row

Nothing is Ambiguous.
From the Editors and Coordination Council of T-invariant