The Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences transferred the functions of the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience functions to an expert council…

December 2022

Bees are dying en masse in almost all regions of Russia. According to the Beekeepers Union, in 2022, the losses exceeded 20,000 bee colonies. The main…

November 2022

Russian scientists are developing a method for processing insects into feed proteins. According to Kirill Golokhvast, head of the Siberian Scientific…
Valentin Parmon, head of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, accused the “Englishmen” of sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipeline…
In 2022, any accurate piece about the state of Russian science comes down to one sentence: everything is terrible and will get worse. Today, several…

September 2022

The Kremlin continues to destroy domestic science. After mass arrests of scientists and international isolation, the Putin administration chose a…

August 2022

The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30 at 91. Here is a piece I wrote about him last year on his 90th birthday. Depending on…
On August 5, Russian investigators arrested Alexander Shiplyuk, director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, on treason charges. He…

May 2022

The pandemic has reduced the international contacts of Russian scientists, but the war in Ukraine will further aggravate the situation. These are the…
Andriy Klyuyev, the former chief of staff for the ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, settled in Russia. In 2021, his family founded a company…

March 2022

In the Russian republic of Buryatia, the administration of the East Siberian State Institute of Culture suspended associate professor Sergei Levitsky…
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, international journals have rejected for “political reasons” 15 per cent of the articles from Siberian…