Save Smolny
On June 17, a group of female students from the Faculty, who created the Save Smolny community, launched a website with the same name.
Ne(moi) text, collected writing
Ne (moi) text is a publication resulting from work created by the participants of Natalia Fedorova’s course War and Decay of Language (November, 2022)
Dissecting ‘Defacing the Enemy’: Stalinist Era Identity
Tomas Sniegon discusses Denis Skopin’s exploration of identity construction in the Stalinist era through altered photographs in his book ‘Defacing the Enemy’.
Roundtable “Free Universities”
On 31 May, Science at Risk held a roundtable discussion on “Free Universities”. Speakers: Ilya Kalinin, Hasan Huseynov, Dmitry Bressler.
United Russia and Partial Mobilization
Essay by Ilya Kalinin on russiapost.info
Denis Skopin’s Claim for Unlawful Dismissal Rejected by Court
The Vasileostrovsky District Court’s unfair decision on May 25, 2023, denied Denis Skopin’s claim and disregarded evidence of his unjust dismissal.
The political mythology of the 90s: Putin’s war with his shadow
Essay by Ilya Kalinin on russiapost.info
The Broken Gunsight of Language
Essay by Ilya Kalinin on russiapost.info
The Free University has been declared an undesirable organization by the Russian authorities
On March 31, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office announced that the Free University was included in the list of undesirable organizations.