Author: Дмитрий Герчиков
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Sociologist Vladimir Zvonovsky: “Those who support Putin cannot really explain his decisions”
This summer, Vladimir Zvonovsky and Alexander Khodykin published a book “Russian Public Opinion in the Conditions of Military Conflict.” T-invariant spoke with Doctor of Sociological Sciences Vladimir Zvonovsky about the results of the study.
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Buy an article cheap: which universities order research in dubious scientific journals
RSUH, RUDN, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, MGPPU were among the universities that founded and published journals with violations. “Laboratory of University Transparency” (Lupa) and T-invariant checked government procurement of 100 higher education institutions and found out that some of them conclude contracts with dubious publications.
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“VK Video will simply postpone oblivion and media death. It’s a video hospice.” Popularizers of science and million-follower bloggers on the cessation of YouTube in Russia
The full-fledged work of the YouTube video service in Russia is gradually ceasing. What do scientists, leading million-viewer channels, and bloggers who popularize science think about this? Astrophysicists Sergey Popov, Vladimir Surdin, historian Mikhail Rodin, popularizers of science Vlad Goncharuk, Evgenia Timonova and Vitaly Egorov answer.
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Igor Efimov: “If DEI principles prevail in the US and European universities, talent will start leaving.”
The DEI ideology is diversity, equity, inclusion. What will happen to science if DEI principles win? T-invariant talked about this with one of the authors of the article “Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge”, professor of biomedicine at Northwestern University in Chicago Igor Efimov.
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“Service” experts: Tomsk linguistics students prepare conclusions on real court cases during their studies
Tomsk State University graduated the first masters of the pilot program “Legal Linguistics”. As graduation theses, students defended a portfolio of linguistic research and expert assessments on real criminal and administrative cases.
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Academic exchange at the FSB rate. American Physical Society stands up for Russian scientists
The FSB has been persecuting members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Abramov and Oleg Kabov for several years now. Their criminal cases are so unprecedented that the American Physical Society, one of the largest in the scientific world, is worried about their fate. Its representatives are sending letters to the President of the…
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Universities in Exile: A Growing Industry
University education is increasingly becoming a hostage to political upheavals. Mass migrations of scientists are the new reality of academic life. What are the main problems of scientists in exile? Do they have a chance to preserve traditions, scientific schools and programs? These and other issues were discussed by participants of the conference Sustainable knowledge:…
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Black mark in the “white list”. What threatens Russian scientists by forcing them to donate to Ukraine?
In the spring of 2022, major publishers of scientific periodicals stopped collaborating with Russian organizations. In response, the Russian authorities initiated a “white list” of publications in which publication would be the basis for grant reporting. About 500 journals recently disappeared from the list – and returned with a recommendation to refrain from paying for…
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Eurasian, imperial, official, millionaire: the story of the new rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities Andrey Loginov
At the end of June, acting Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities named Andrey Loginov, ex-Deputy Minister of Justice of Russia. This happened against the backdrop of a public scandal around the “Higher Political School” named after Ivan Ilyin, headed by Alexander Dugin, created at the university. T-invariant analyzed Loginov’s biography and…
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Sociologist Nika Kostenko: “Time works against the return of those who left”
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…
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Rectors of the “Russian world”. Who heads the universities in the occupied Ukrainian territories?
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.
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“Window to the West”: how will the fate of the last channel of interaction between Russian physicists and CERN be decided?
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and the European Organization for Nuclear Research may sever official relations as early as this week.
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Undesirable two years: how the Fulbright program for Russian scientists ends
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…
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Not everyone is for the king. For the first time in the history of the Russian Academy of Sciences, FSO employees did not allow academicians to attend the General Meeting
Academicians turned to Vladimir Putin with a proposal to head a new body of the Russian Academy of Sciences – the Board of Trustees. But not everyone was able to vote for this decision. FSO employees blacklisted more than twenty scientists and did not allow them to attend the General Meeting of the Russian Academy…
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Mikhail Edelshtein: “We have only two bonds: victory in the Second World War and homophobia”
Censorship has actually returned to Russian book publishing, and the state’s special attention today is connected with LGBT issues. Some books are withdrawn from sale, others are removed from the school curriculum, and others are published with pages painted over. In an interview with T-invariant, cultural historian, candidate of philological sciences Mikhail Edelshtein explained what…
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Journalism departments hit by “storm Z”: military officers and former prisoners joined in teaching students
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.
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If there was a person, there would be expertise.
Why the Oleg Kabov case could change the fate of Russian scienceIn Novosibirsk, they are considering the criminal case of corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Kabov, which was initiated by the FSB. This is the first case in Russia when a scientist is being tried for his allegedly unsatisfactory work, and scientific and technical expertise forms the basic part of the charge.…
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Council of Elders.
Putin’s pensioners with Cold War experience gathered at the “dormant institute” under the Security CouncilVladimir 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.
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Z-plasticity of social fabric.
What scientists understood while studying the “new reality” in RussiaFebruary 24, 2022 is a date that divided the lives of millions of people into before and after. Millions of Ukrainians became refugees, hundreds of thousands of Russians were forced to leave the country, thousands of people became political prisoners. Schools and universities have been invaded by Z-ideology. This gave rise to a new Russian…
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Meta-detection of FSB.
How 900 pages of Sergei Abramov’s criminal case were born from $75 in a yearThe FSB completed investigative actions in the case of corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Abramov a year later: the materials were transferred to the court, which must set a date for the hearing. According to T-invariant, Abramov’s case involves seven donations of 1,000 rubles each. The scientist himself has repeatedly denied…
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How Dissernet figures advise the Federation Council
University Transparency Laboratory (Lupa), with the help of the free online community Dissernet, analyzed the activities of expert councils of the upper house of the Russian parliament. It turned out that 10% of experts advising senators on the laws they pass have violations of academic ethics.
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Normal war. How mass murder changes people’s consciousness and their ideas about the norm
How does war become routine, heroic and ordinary? Do you need to look at photographs of hostages every day? Where is the line between adapting to war and rejecting conflict? These questions were discussed by the participants in the discussion “Normalization of Evil” – urban geographer Aleksey Novikov, visiting researcher at Ariel University Viktor Vakhshtain…
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Look up
42 Nobel laureates in an open letter called on world leaders not to recognize the legitimacy of Putin as president: “The war in Ukraine and the murder of Alexei Navalny do not concern only Russia and Ukraine. The Putin regime has shown that it poses a direct and clear threat to all humanity.”
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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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No more tolerance to Putin’s regime!
An appeal from scholars of the world42 Nobel laureates called on world leaders to increase aid to Ukraine, protect political prisoners in Russia and not recognize Putin as the legally elected president.
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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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The Ministry of Justice included T-invariant in the register of foreign agents
According to the Ministry of Justice, “the T-invariant project opposed the special military operation in Ukraine and carried out public actions aimed at creating a negative image of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.”
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“In the struggle for a just world, Russian scientists should not be victims of this struggle, but its allies”
What could be the consequences of the break with CERN for Russian high-energy physics? T-invariant’s questions were answered by the co-founders of the free online community “Dissernet” – physicists Andrei Rostovtsev and Andrei Zayakin.
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“If the reform of Russian science begins in ten years, then there will be no one to return”
The Reforum has published five tasks for the restoration of Russian science, proposed by T-invariant editor-in-chief Olga Orlova.
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Political particle accelerator. A neutral flag is being sewn for Russian physicists at CERN
T-invariant has become aware of the reaction of the Ministry of Education and Science and the CERN-Russia Committee to the final decision of CERN to exclude Russia from the list of partners, as well as to stop working with scientists with affiliations in Russian research institutes and universities.
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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…
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Special academic operation.
How the FSB has been persecuting scientists who signed a letter against the war with Ukraine for two years in a rowT-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.
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Nothing is Ambiguous.
From the Editors and Coordination Council of T-invariantOn 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.
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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…
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Mikhail Feigelman: “I’m looking for tall poppy who are interested in science, not just an academic career”.
How did the idea come about to build an “island of academic intelligence” using Google Quantum? How to create conditions under which students will pursue science and not a career? Explains the initiator of the PhD program in quantum condensed matter physics QT Future at the University of Ljubljana Mikhail Feigelman.
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“Israel was not created for Jews to run around in bomb shelters.” How the war turned the peaceful life of Israelis upside down
Important Stories published a text by T-invariant editor-in-chief Olga Orlova about how the Israelis were left alone with the war. A third of students are at the front, small businesses are on the verge of collapse, volunteers are saving farmers.
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In memoriam astrologiae. Why do academics continue to bury astrology?
The Russian Academy of Sciences issued a memorandum “On the pseudoscience of astrology.” In dark times, even stating obvious things becomes a struggle for normality and resistance to chaos. We did a kind of backstage, telling some interesting facts about the preparation of the memorandum and the work of the Commission.