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“Playing a Cat-and-Mouse Game with the International Community”: What Are Iran’s True Nuclear Ambitions?
The recent 12-day Iran-Israel war has reignited discussions about Iran’s nuclear program. Was it ever genuinely peaceful? How significant is Russia’s role in supporting Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Are the Iranians capable of building a bomb right now? T-invariant discussed these questions with Dmitry Kovchegin, author of a publication by the Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies on Russian-Iranian nuclear cooperation.
From Import Substitution to Sanctions Evasion: Russian Universities Launch Programs in Sanctions Compliance
Following the invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of Western brands exited Russia. Over the past three-plus years, amid official rhetoric about import substitution, a parallel logistics system has taken shape — one that keeps Russian store shelves stocked with foreign goods and supplies drones and other military equipment with critical components. As the country adapts to a long-term life under sanctions, this parallel economy demands new expertise. Russian universities and other players in the education market have ramped up the production of specialists trained in the fine art of sanctions circumvention.
Scientific Spoils: How Russian Plagiarists Appropriated Ukrainian Texts
T-invariant, co-founder of Dissernet Andrey Rostovtsev and community project coordinator Larisa Melikhova continue their “Plagiarism Navigator”. Through individual cases of international academic plagiarism, we examine the global-scale imitation of scholarly activity. The sixth installment examines how translated academic fraud became a commercialized scheme for Russian and Ukrainian scholars.
Brilliance and Poverty, Triumph and Tragedy, Rise and Fall. Sociologist of Science Mikhail Sokolov Reflects on the Fate of Social Sciences in Russia—Past and Present.
In June 2023, T-invariant published an interview with Mikhail Sokolov, a sociologist of education and science and a professor at the European University in St. Petersburg. Among other topics, the scholar suggested that the war would have little impact on the state of social sciences in Russia. Has his opinion changed two years later? What is happening to the social sciences today, and what lies ahead for them? These questions are now being discussed with Mikhail Sokolov by Sergei Erofeev, a sociologist at Rutgers University (USA) and president of RASA, the global association of Russian-speaking scholars.
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