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Date of incident: April 4, 2024
Type of violation: detention
Institution: St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics

We Can Buy Anything—Even People and Technology

T-invariant continues its project in which Russian scientists and academics, speaking anonymously, share how their lives and work have changed amid the war and the ever-tightening grip of state control. In this installment, a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the Volga Federal District discusses staffing issues, funding challenges in Russian science, and the widespread detachment from the war.

Hirsch Index at Market Rate

T-invariant, co-founder of Dissernet Andrey Rostovtsev and community project coordinator Larisa Melikhova continue their “Plagiarism Navigator”. Through carefully selected cases of international scientific plagiarism, we reveal how academic activity is being faked on a planetary scale. In this third installment, we investigate the story of a prominent Serbian scholar who engaged in both purchased co-authorship and blatant plagiarism.

How Supercomputer Expert Sergei Abramov Defends Himself Against FSB (Federal Security Service) Accusations of Financing Extremism

A verdict is expected imminently for Sergei Abramov, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). On March 25, he turned 68, but the last two years have been erased by the FSB: Abramov stands accused of financing extremism—specifically, seven donations totaling 7,000 rubles to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). The trial, now dragging on for nearly a year, has seen the scientist attempting to prove that the prosecution failed to establish who authorized the payments or their intended recipient. He has also challenged the validity of a linguistic analysis of his Facebook posts conducted by a bachelor’s-degree law graduate. Abramov faces up to eight years in prison, and his family fears he may not survive incarceration.

Russians in and around Trauma

T-invariant continues its series featuring anonymous accounts from Russian scientists and academics on how their lives and work have transformed under wartime conditions and increasing state repression. In this installment, a psychotherapist and candidate of psychological sciences explains why current events are reviving old traumas—and how the suppression of unprocessed history leaves society unprepared for present challenges.

“Sovereign” Means Military: How Russia Militarized AI, Drone, and Cryptography Industries

Behind the facade of Putin’s discussions with technocrats about the threats posed by Western generative chatbots lies the full-scale militarization of Russia’s artificial intelligence sector. T-invariant examines how Russian forces are already using AI to guide kamikaze drones via optical navigation (immune to enemy electronic warfare), refine combat tactics with drone swarms, overhaul military logistics, and repurpose cryptography—now geared more toward cyberattacks than data protection.

The Iran-Bologna Process in Tajikistan

T-invariant, co-founder of Dissernet Andrey Rostovtsev and community project coordinator Larisa Melikhova continue their “Plagiarism Navigator”. Through individual cases of international academic plagiarism, we examine the global-scale imitation of scholarly activity. In this second installment, we focus on Iranian scholars who defended their dissertations in Tajikistan between 2011 and 2013 under the auspices of the Russian Higher Attestation Commission (VAK).

Sergey Medvedev

Date of incident: March 10, 2025
Type of violation: arrest in absentia
Institution: Charles University, Prague

Maria Vorontsova was included in the circle of the largest scientists without regard to scientometrics

Vladimir Putin’s eldest daughter is now publicly positioned as a major scientist with a “world-class laboratory”. Her Hirsch index is extremely low, which did not prevent Vorontsova from winning a large RNF grant on par with the country’s most successful scientists.

“If DOGE plans go through, U.S. scientific leadership will end.” American scientist – on Musk’s health care reform

In the coming days, the U.S. Senate is expected to confirm the new director of the National Institutes of Health. The key institution of American science has come under pressure from the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE), which is headed by Elon Musk. Why the reforms initiated by Donald Trump’s people are reminiscent of the situation in Germany in the 1930s and how the DOGE plans threaten the development of science – the head of one of the laboratories of the National Institute of Health told T-invariant.

Konstantin Sonin: “Both Putin and Trump Believe That Might Makes Right”

Following Donald Trump’s election and his initial presidential steps, it became abundantly clear: the world will never be the same. Who—or what—can save Ukraine today? Can private businesses support initiatives aiding Ukrainians and Russians opposing the war? Was Navalny doomed to die after the war began? What is the actual impact of international sanctions on Russia? How are Trump and Putin alike? T-invariant discussed these questions with economist Konstantin Sonin, a professor at the University of Chicago.

Date of incident: March 5, 2025
Type of violation: protocol on participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization
Institution: Seoul Kunmin University

Andrey Veryanov

Incident date: December 5, 2023
Violation type: treason charge
Institution: independent researcher