Dear Colleagues,
As you might have heard, the European University was reopened last Friday! I want to thank you all, on my own behalf (the rector’s general thanks are at www.eu.spb.ru), for your support: many of you have signed letters for us and took other important, helpful steps. This small victory was the cumulative result of [...]
Better stay away from those / That carry around a firehose.
—Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
On 29 February 2007, students of the still-closed European University in Saint Petersburg gathered at the monument to Russian renaissance man Mikhail Lomonosov to lay a memorial firehose and say farewell to their dear alma mater. They were joined by Chto [...]
Ousting the Ideological Enemy
By Yelena Biberman
Russia Profile
International Academic Community Sees the University’s Closure as a Bad Lesson about Russia
A prominent ivory tower in the Russian cultural capital has become one of the tragic casualties of Russia’s cold clash with the West. The shuttering of the European University (EUSP) in St. Petersburg on Feb. 8 by [...]
Artemy Magun, a professor at The European University in Saint Petersburg and a member of Chto Delat, discusses the prospects for a widening of the repressions against non-state, “westernizing” institutions of higher learning in Russian and what this would mean for the country’s future. (In Russian)
Video by Ilya Utekhin
http://www.gopetition.com/online/17080.html
LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY IN ST PETERSBURG
Dear colleagues. By now many of you will have heard about the situation at the European University in St Petersburg (EUSPb). The university has been suddenly closed by the Russian authorities due to a reputed “violation of fire codes”. The classes have been suspended indefinitely and the [...]
Last week, the European University in Saint Petersburg was shut down, ostensibly for violating fire codes. Chto Delat member and Petersburg-based philosopher Artemy Magun explains in an open letter posted to platform chtodelat.
Dear friends,
Many of you have been asking me of what’s going on with the European University at Saint-Petersburg.
I have decided to write to [...]
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