INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
immediately put at risk of criminal prosecution
One month earlier, Brigham Young University found itself in the same position.The two colleges are members of a small but growing number of
universities whose operations have been banned in Russia since 2021, when the liberal arts school Bard College became the first university
law was passed in 2015, dozens of universities, NGOs, think tanks, foundations and media organizations that have documented or criticized
carries a sentence of six years in prison
of up to four years.Though enforcement is in many cases not retroactive, experts say the law has a chilling effect by creating the
You link to a study by a scholar from Yale and you may be facing a five-year prison term
against Russia.When Brigham Young University, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was proscribed in June, no
neglected student populations
The Kremlin has accused Soros and his organizations of posing a threat to state security.After Bard announced a $500 million donation from
of view, the Anglo-American tradition and the freedom it supports is connected with the ability to innovate
The Moscow Times.Before Bard College was banned, its dual-degree partnership with Smolny College at St
Petersburg State University (SPGU) had been an effort to introduce the tradition of liberal arts education to Russia, with hundreds of
overnight, without warning, we were subject to an FSB investigation
Russia over his connections with the college.Smolny College in St
Petersburg.Courtesy of Smolny CollegeAnother aluma of the Bard-Smolny program is artist Sasha Skochilenko, who was sentenced to prison for
replacing supermarket price tags with facts about the invasion of Ukraine before being freed in a historic Russia-U.S
It now operates the Smolny Beyond Borders program from its branch in Berlin as an online degree targeted at Russian-speaking students in the
diaspora.Brigham Young University, whose study abroad program to Russia has been suspended since the Covid-19 pandemic, is reportedly
considering trying to get its listing reversed as well.Bard College campus.Pete MauneyBard still has some staff who are Russian citizens and
advises them not to travel to the country
questions about the measures they are taking to support their Russian students and faculty.The full-scale invasion of Ukraine restricted
academics, including two from Yale, have been banned from entering the country.Accessing state archives for research has also become
also warn that requests to archives may be directed to the Foreign Ministry or Federal Archival Agency, delaying projects through months of
bureaucracy.Russian academics have also been targeted for working with foreign researchers
In 2023, aerospace scientist Valery Golubkin was convicted of treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison for sharing sensitive research
with a partner in Belgium
The apparently secret information is reportedly available in the public domain.Botstein said he would advise Yale and Brigham Young, as well
