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Russian Physicist Sentenced to 12 Years for Treason over scientific cooperation with Dutch colleagues (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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According to the Perviy Otdel human rights project, project reports passed by Gubanov and Golubkin to their Dutch colleagues had been examined by three specialized commissions prior to submission. None of these commissions found state secrets in the reports, Perviy Otdel said.

Several Russian scientists have been jailed in recent years in what critics say is a reflection of the state’s increasing paranoia toward scientific cooperation with foreign countries.

The scientific community has warned that treason cases against scientists will have a chilling effect on young researchers.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Two related insights.

Human Decapitalization. The Unsolvable Problems of the Russian Labor Market (June 2023)

Vladimir Gimpelson, Professor of Practice in Russian Studies in the Department Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses the state and prospects of the Russian labor market. From the second half of 2022 onward, the “demographic hole” has been overlaid by war losses, emigration, and structural changes directly related to the war.

'There Will Be no Collapses, but Rather a Viscous, Slow Sinking into Backwardness’ (June 2023)

Natalia Zubarevich, Professor of the Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia of the Moscow State University, talks about the labor shortage in Russia, the trends in labor migration within the country, how resource exports are being redirected to China, how compensation from the state is helping to get men to sign up, and how Russians, unable to change anything, are building barriers between themselves and the war.