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Swiss cross on Russian students: famous Zurich university imposes sanctions on them for “security reasons”
The ETH Zurich has adopted new security rules that effectively make it impossible for Russian students to enrol in the university’s master’s and doctoral programmes. T-invariant managed to speak to students who have lost the opportunity to study at this prestigious institution and to take comments from the ETH itself.
‘It’s some kind of silent conspiracy’: how the world’s media is reporting the death toll in Gaza
An international team of scientists analysed 1,371 reports of Gaza war casualties and found that the information circulated by the world’s leading media outlets was falsified. In episode 15 of the Invasion: Science in a Time of War podcast, we speak with the initiator of this study, sociologist Tatiana Glaser.
Prosecutors pulled the crystal owl over the Russian globe: how the CHGKs became undesirable
In November 2024, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation recognized the International Association of Intellectual Games (IAIG) as an undesirable organization. This absurd, at first glance, decision was preceded by a long history of ethical transformation and split of the once united intellectual community. Today, this confrontation looks like it was caused by a war, and everyone writes about it. However, it is based on deep contradictions and psychological deformations that have been embedded since Soviet times.
Sovereign Journals for Sovereign Science: How the System of Scientific Periodicals in Russia is Collapsing
The redistribution of the market for the publication and distribution of academic scientific journals has led not only to serious delays in the publication of scientists’ works, but also to Russia’s self-isolation in the global market of scientific periodicals. By the beginning of December 2024, almost 75% of Russian academic scientific journals have not gone to press on time. This is the price of striving to publish scientific journals with a “Russian identity” and without foreign influence. T-invariant tells us what has already happened to Russian scientific periodicals and what else may happen to them.
Dmitry Kizhmenev
Дата инцидента: 16 декабря 2024
Тип нарушения: обвинение в госизмене
Учреждение: РФЯЦ-ВНИИЭФ (Российский федеральный ядерный центр — Всероссийский научно-исследовательский институт экспериментальной физики), Саров

Сводка: 16 декабря 2024 в Нижегородский областной суд поступило дело 39-летнего жителя города Сарова Дмитрия Кижменева по статьям о подделке документов (часть 4 статьи 327 УК), попытке выезда из России, несмотря на ограничение в связи с допуском к гостайне (часть 3 статьи 30, часть 1 статьи 283.2 УК) и госизмене (статья 275 УК), сообщает Медиазона.

Источники: Медиазона, Kasparov.ru.
The Joyous Science. An Essay on the Biography and Scientific Activity of George Gamow
The fifteenth essay in the series “Creators” is dedicated to Georgy Gamov, an outstanding physicist and cosmologist, professor at George Washington University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, who made a huge contribution to nuclear physics, cosmology and theoretical biology. Together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) T-invariant continues publishing the series of biographical essays “Creators”.
Major demographic shocks of the 21st century
Current demographic dynamics suggest radical changes around the world. Fertility will fall everywhere, but the main problems are not related to this, but to uneven population growth in different countries. Scientists predict a huge increase in the proportion of Africans by 2100 and a marked depopulation of Europe and North America. Alexander Markov and Olga Orlova discuss the main demographic shocks in the 10th episode of the CounterEvolution podcast.
Andrei Yakovlev: “It will not be the late USSR, but a thawed outcast with a nuclear truncheon”
Today one can hear more and more often that Russia in the coming decades will live under “eternal Putin”. The political regime is stable, the economy shows stability. Will the country turn into the USSR 2.0 or into an “orthodox Iran”? Are there prerequisites for regime change in Russia? T-invariant spoke to Andrei Yakovlev, a well-known economist and associate researcher at the Davis Centre at Harvard University.
Leaders of education. Who leads universities in Russia?
Viktor Sadovnichy, the 85-year-old rector of Moscow State University, has been reappointed for a seventh term. This is not quite a typical situation: today the average age of a rector is under 60. T-invariant has studied the biographies of the heads of Russian universities in detail and realised that the problem with the rector corps is different: it is remarkably monotonous, as if they have specially selected people according to the average statistical pattern. Both the rector of Moscow State University and the heads of unremarkable regional universities have similar biographies and typical careers.
“Kovalchuk proposes that our scientists become a dish on the table of an ogre.” Why Russia has failed to maintain relations with CERN
on 30 November 2024, the five-year agreement between the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Russian Federation will end. T-invariant recalls how dramatically CERN and Russia have severed their relations over the past years and publishes an interview with a witness to these events – scientist Andrei Seriakov from St Petersburg.
Tatyana Stanovaya
Дата инцидента: 29 ноября 2024
Тип нарушения: признан иноагентом
Учреждение: Фонд Карнеги

Сводка: 29 ноября 2024 Минюст объявил политолога и журналистку Татьяну Становую «иноагентом». Как утверждает ведомство, Становая распространяла фейки о власти РФ и политике страны: «Принимала участие в распространении для неограниченного круга лиц сообщений и материалов иностранного агента»

Источники: Медуза, Москва24.
And Bakhtin could not cover it up. the “impure turn” taken by anthropologists from the two capitals could not be swept under the carpet of censorship
Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin explored carnival and laughter culture in the stagnant years of the late Soviet Union and called such topics “material-bodily bottom. Half a century later, anthropologists held a conference about excrement in St Petersburg entitled Anthropopology: Brown Studies and the Unclean Turn.
“First Student”. Why SPbSU rushed to ban its staff from publishing in open access scientific journals
St. Petersburg State University was the first Russian university to ban its employees from publishing in international open access journals published by Elsevier. There are good reasons for this: as Elsevier told T-invarinat, the funds received from Russian authors are indeed sent to Ukraine.
A world without religions: could human evolution fulfil John Lennon’s dream?
Could humans have done without religion in their development? Apparently not. Whatever the genesis of religious consciousness, our mind is so organised that belief in the supernatural, omens, fortune-telling, and spirits is almost inevitable. Alexander Markov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, talks about this in episode 12 of the CounterEvolution podcast.
Mikhail Verbitsky
Date of incident: November 21, 2024
Type of violation: criminal prosecution
Institution: National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics of Brazil (IMPA)

Summary: On November 21, 2024, a criminal case was opened against mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky (also known as Misha Verbitsky) in Russia for calls for terrorism RBK reports. “A criminal case was opened against Mikhail Verbitsky, born in 1969, under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls to commit terrorist activity),” an unnamed source told RIA Novosti.

Sources: RBC, RIA Novosti, Kommersant.
Why did evolution need depression and why don’t we need it now?
Approximately 4% of the world’s people suffer from depressive disorder, and this figure is higher in women than in men. In the past, doctors used to call it melancholia and could not find a universal treatment. Now they have learnt to cope with depression quite well. And thank God, says Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexander Markov. This is the 11th episode of the CounterEvolution podcast.
Vera Afanasyeva
Date of incident: November 15, 2024
Type of violation: recognized as a foreign agent
Institution: Blogger

Summary: On November 15, 2024, the Russian Ministry of Justice declared Vera Afanasyeva a foreign agent, with reference to the agency’s website Mediazona reports.

Sources: Mediazona, RBC.
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 current military mobilization of Russian society.
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