2024: The War Has Become Routine

2024: The War Has Become Routine

In the third year of Russian aggression against Ukraine, violations of freedom on Russian soil have become commonplace. Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: What until recently evoked strong emotion is gradually becoming part of the everyday educational process in...
Suppressed Collectives and Protesting Individuals

Suppressed Collectives and Protesting Individuals

Why didn’t Russia’s final liberal arts institute become the center of anti-war protests? Victor Mokrushin   Photo: The vertical chain of command at the Tyumen Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences began with Putin and ended with the director of the institute....
“Do Your Job and Don’t Try to Do Someone Else’s”?

“Do Your Job and Don’t Try to Do Someone Else’s”?

Debates on models of academic freedom. Part 2 Dmitry Dubrovsky   In Part 1 of this article, we opened a conversation about competing models of academic freedom. In Part 2, we will discuss how Eurocentric the concept is and in what sense it may be considered universal....
When Was Teaching More Free?

When Was Teaching More Free?

When academic freedom is reduced to funding and accountability to funders, the Soviet period seems much more advantageous than the modern one in the eyes of Russian teachers. At the author’s request, the name is not published.   Photo: “And I can say that...