RASA statement in support of Professor Konstantin Sonin
The Board of Directors of RASA (Russian American Science Association) expresses full and unconditional support to a valued member of…
The Wildlings are already here. Awaiting the White Walkers
Scientists were shocked by a talk at a theological conference by Alexander Kudryavtsev, director of the Institute of General Genetics,…
Free University
Date of incident: March 31, 2023 Type of violation: persecution, violation of autonomy Institution: Free University Summary: In 2021, the…
Fear of the Stochastic Parrot
Why does it make no sense to stop training ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence models? Denis Tulinov, author of the…
«At first I thought it was a fake» — scientists on religious fundamentalism of the Institute of General Genetics director
A.M. Kudryavtsev, corresponding member of the RAS, director of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the RAS, made a blatantly…
Victor Vakhshtayn continues the dialogue with Mikhail Sokolov
Responding to Mikhail Sokolov’s points, Viktor Vakhshtayn continues his discussion of the obstacles that arise in transferring the results of…
Creating Russia outside of Russia
The coming down of the Iron Curtain makes it more difficult to understand what is happening in Russia, and there…
Sociologist Mikhail Sokolov responds to an interview with Victor Vakhshtayn
Mikhail Sokolov has posted detailed remarks following an interview with Victor Vakhshtayn published by T-invariant. Spoiler alert: «Russian social scientists…
George Kistiakowsky — the Unknown Father of the American Bomb
His ideal was a quiet university job, but life made him a "merchant of death. Georgy Kistyakowsky's name does not…
Oleg Orlov
Date of incident: March 21, 2023 Type of violation: accusation of repeated discrediting of the Russian Army Institution: Memorial. Human…
«In Russia the measure of a scientist’s influence is the measure of his guilt»
What happens to Russian Studies in the general field of social sciences and humanities after the start of the war?…
The unreachable self-sufficiency
What won't allow to build in isolation a mathematics comparable in power and diversity with the Soviet one? The intellectual…
Moscow Aviation Institute
Date of incident: March 20, 2023 Type of violation: coercion to sign a summons to the military enlistment office to…
Steampunk and a Thinking Crystal
Artificial Intelligence is preparing to supplant copyright. It radically changes the notion of «copy» underlying copyright protection. In fact, the…
Penza State University
Date of incident: March 16, 2023 Type of violation: coercion to sign a summons to the military enlistment office to…
«The strike is directed at a wrong target»
Breaking international ties with Russian scientists will lead to results directly opposite to those hoped for by Ukrainian scientists who…
Viktor Novogorsky
Date of incident: March 15, 2023 Violation type: expulsion Institution: Mari State University Summary: Third-year student Viktor Novogorsky was expelled…
Konstantin Miroshnikov
Date of incident: March 15, 2023 Type of violation: dismissal Institution: Moscow International University Synopsis: Konstantin Miroshnikov, teacher of the…
Two brave and a chatbot
An international boycott of scientists for their government's war? Even anti-war-minded people are divided over such measures. Many do not…
Berlin Wall 2
Ukrainian scientists have appealed to the international community to boycott their Russian colleagues. However, such a boycott conflicts with a…
Nikita Menshov
Date of incident: March 11, 2023 Type of violation: arrest Institution: Ural State Law University Summary: Freshman Nikita Menshov has…
SOVA Center
Date of incident: March 10, 2023 Type of violation: violation of autonomy Institution: Information and Analytical SOVA Center Brief: On…
Europe’s «Strait Gate» to the Future
Despite the energy crisis, the European Union is not abandoning its Green Deal and is increasing efforts to develop environmentally…
Elena Kabakova
Date of incident: March 7, 2023 Type of violation: fine Institution: Pyatigorsk State University Summary: The court fined Elena Kabakova,…
«It is not only the Russian economy that is mobilizing for war, but also science»
Survey (Issue 2): How has the war affected Russian science and scientists? Although global science did not affected much, the…
Countries importing Russian fake dissertations
Prof. Andrei Rostovtsev listed the countries whose citizens, according to Dissernet, actively use the opportunity to receive academic degrees in…
How codes of the underworld leads to military aggression
Peacetime sociology cannot yet explain how a full-scale war became possible in twenty-first-century Europe. Sociologist Svetlana Stephenson discusses the reasons…
Ukrainian scientists call for boycott of Russian science
The Nature web-site reports about an open letter of Ukrainian scientists with an appeal to the world scientific community to…