- Blog on academic publishing (Ukrainian blog, in Ukrainian), run by Serhii Nazarovets, a scientometrics researcher at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
- The SCRIPTS blog assembles a variety of analytical views, opinions, and commentaries by members and guest authors. They all relate to the liberal script in its current varieties, as well as possible future evolutions in its regional and global interrelations. The Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)” is a research consortium that analyses why the liberal model of order has fallen into crisis despite its political, economic, and social achievements.
May 2022
- Foreign Policy (FP): Stop Falling for Russia’s Delusions of Perpetual Victory. The best sources on the war are the Ukrainians on the ground. By Mart Kuldkepp, associate professor of Scandinavian history and politics at University College London. 10.05.2022: “More than two months into the invasion, it is striking how little agency Ukrainians are habitually given in analyzing unfolding events. The realist (in reality, colonialist) understanding of Ukraine as a passive periphery, the fate of which must be inevitably decided by Russia and the West, has led to underestimations of the role of the Ukrainian armed forces, civil society, national and local governments, and, most of all, Ukraine’s strong will to resist.”
- Euromaidan Press: Hunting fascism in Ukraine, you overlooked fascism in Russia, by Hanna Hrytsenko, 05.05.2022: “In the witchhunt for fascism among fringe groups in Ukraine and especially in the campaign to find Nazis among the Azov Regiment, commentators have overlooked the emergence of genuine state fascism in Russia. This happened because Russian propaganda abuses political illiteracy to justify its military intervention into Ukraine since 2014. Its goal is to plant the seeds of distrust in Ukraine as broadly as possible. It was this message that was bought all over the world when exposing Ukrainian fringe groups with no actual influence or public support. But in fact, it is Russia that embraced the main principles of fascism and incorporated them into its official ideology.” Also see: CDI Dispatch No. 4. The Azov Regiment and Western moral procrastination: Anton Shekhovtsov talks about the Ukrainian Azov regiment, its history and evolution, and explains the reasons behind the information attacks on this military unit that plays an important role in resisting the Russian genocidal invasion, 31.03.2022
- BPS Bulletin – The Newsletter of the Biophysical Society: The Tragedy and Triumph of Ukraine, by Alexey Ladokhin (Professor, KU Medical Center), May 2022
- Nature: How three Ukrainian scientists are surviving Russia’s brutal war, by Nisha Gaind, 06.05.2022
- University World News: ‘Retaining scholars in Ukraine is key’: Zelenskyy advisor, by Nathan M Greenfield, 05.05.2022
- Der Tagespspiegel: Antwort auf offenen Brief von Prominenten Ukrainer in Deutschland „erschüttert und entsetzt“ über Schwarzer-Brief. Alice Schwarzer und andere Prominente verharmlosten Russlands Kriegsverbrechen in der Ukraine, kritisieren Ukrainer in Deutschland. Ihre Antwort im Wortlaut.02.05.2022
- The Atlantic: ‘We Can Only Be Enemies’ One family’s experience of Vladimir Putin’s invasion offers a path to the end of the war, by Peter Pomerantsev, 01.05.2022
April 2022
- BBC: Ukraine war: Professor tells of elderly mother’s death in Mariupol. Prof. Andrei Kirilenko, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. 29.04.2022 Also see by Andrei Kirilenko in The Globe and Mail: “The destruction of my hometown of Mariupol is something I can never forgive”, 20.04.2022: “… I last visited Mariupol in 2019. The city that had long been a corrupt industrial backwater was becoming a model of inclusive development and openness. A new IT hub was being built. An international festival of contemporary arts was being planned. The city’s football team was playing in the UEFA Europa League. Ukraine itself was quickly moving toward the EU, while Russia was quickly regressing back into the USSR. Ukrainians were traveling visa-free throughout Europe. Russians were building tanks, planes and rockets with the money they made by selling oil and gas to Europeans. In Ukraine, new presidential and parliamentary elections were coming. No one could predict their outcomes. In Russia, the same aging cult leader remained in power for nearly two decades. Ukrainian movies about the War of 2014 won awards at Cannes and Sundance. Russia was producing ever more movies about the Second World War. At the end of my visit, my mom asked me if war with Russia was imminent. I answered that I switched to speaking Ukrainian with her because speaking Russian is an open invitation for the Russians to invade. They view the use of their language as a precursor to invasion. If you do not want them to come and enforce their values, why do you speak their language? This makes any place where Russian is heard not safe. Any place. Starting with Mariupol. That’s why not only economic, but cultural ties with anything Russian must be severed. Otherwise, it’s an invitation for invasion. It is only a matter of time. It took Russians three more years after my last visit to amass enough armies to attack Mariupol again. This time they turned it into an apocalypse. They do not want any Ukrainians – whether Russian-speaking or not – to remain there. They do not want anyone there who can witness what it was like before they invaded and destroyed it. They want to sacrifice everyone. That includes hundreds of thousands of moms and their sons and daughters. That includes my mom. I will never forgive them for that.“
- IEP Podcast: #4 UkraineMEMO: Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine – Was macht ihn so komplex?29.04.2022, with Dr. Susan Stewart, Senior Fellow in der Forschungsgruppe Osteuropa und Eurasien der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). Moderators: Ljudmyla Melnyk & Arthur Molt
- The art newspaper: Venice museums send supplies to help save Ukraine’s art, 28.04.2022
- EU publications: EU research and innovation and the invasion of Ukraine, 25.04.2022
- European University Association: Impact of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine on the Ukrainian higher education sector, 25.04.2022
- Radio Svoboda: From the lessons of the big bluff: why 40 million Ukrainians were thrown into the trap of “serial killer” in Ukrainian, 25.04.2022
- UCU: What impact will the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war have on the world? UCU’s School of Public Administration met with two leading American political scientists Francis Fukuyama and Michael McFaul to discuss the Russian-Ukrainian war, which is a turning point in the world history, tendency of the Western democracy and the future of liberal democracy, 22.04.2022
- Science: Ukraine’s mounting death toll includes a growing number of researchers, by Richard Stone, 22.04.2022
- The New York Times: The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: ‘ruscism’, 22.04.2022
- VoxUkraine: How European universities provide support to Russians in the name of solidarity with Ukraine, by Olena Rybiy, 21.04.2022
- NNews: Ukraine has joined the European “elite club” of polar research, in Ukrainian, 08.04.2022
- The Christian Science Monitor: Brain gain: Universities worldwide step up to help Ukrainian scholars, by Chelsea Sheasley, 07.04.2022
- Science I Business: Ukrainian researchers navigate times of war, by Goda Naujokaitytė, 07.04.2022: Estimates show around 40% of the country’s 65,000-strong early career research force has been affected by war. Advocates say listening to their needs should be the main focus now
- A blueprint for the reconstruction of Ukraine, by Torbjörn Becker, Barry Eichengreen, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Sergei Guriev, Simon Johnson, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Kenneth Rogoff, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, 07.04.2022: “The scale of destruction in Ukraine is already staggering. A new CEPR publication builds on prior experiences with reconstruction following both wars and natural disasters to outline some principles for the future reconstruction of Ukraine. Efforts should include putting the country on the path to EU accession; establishing a stand-alone EU-authorised agency with autonomy to coordinate and manage aid and reconstruction programmes; recognising that Ukraine must own its reconstruction; encouraging inflows of foreign capital and technology transfers; a focus on grants rather than loans; and rebuilding around the principle of a zero-carbon future.“
- Nature: The countries maintaining research ties with Russia despite Ukraine. Many Western nations are severing scientific links — but it’s a different story in China, India and South Africa, 06.04.2022
- Science I Business: EU to give €25M to consortium helping Ukrainian scholars at risk, 05.04.2022: “EU research and innovation commissioner Mariya Gabriel is to announce a €25 million direct aid package of Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) grants, to be managed by a consortium of ten research organisations, universities and NGOs, to help researchers from Ukraine….The €25 million for the MSCA4Ukraine fellowships will be awarded to a consortium of 10 organisations that built expertise in supporting scholars at risk through a MSCA coordination and support grant from the previous research programme, Horizon 2020. Now the emergency fund will enable the consortium to help researchers who are displaced from Ukraine to continue their research in EU member states or countries associated to Horizon Europe…. The Commission says it will skip the usual procedure of making the money available through a call for proposals, saying the group has expertise in dealing with researchers at risk and there is an exceptional emergency in Ukraine. The consortium includes Scholars at Risk Europe, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, European University Association, Jagellonian University, University of Oslo, University of Gothenburg, French national PAUSE programme, the Dutch foundation for refugee students UAF, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Scholz CTC GmbH.”
- Bellingcat: Russia’s Bucha “Facts” Versus the Evidence, by Eliot Higgins, 04.04.2022
- Chytomo: Council of Europe will help Ukraine preserve cultural heritage, in Ukrainian, 03.04.2022
- ZN.ua: 15 largest scientific publishers closed access for Russia and Belarus, in Russian, 03.04.2022
- Chytomo: The occupiers completely destroyed the buildings of the Karazin Kharkiv National University, in Ukrainian, 02.04.2022
March 2022
- Centre for Democratic Integrity, CDI Dispatch No. 4. The Azov Regiment and Western moral procrastination: Anton Shekhovtsov talks about the Ukrainian Azov regiment, its history and evolution, and explains the reasons behind the information attacks on this military unit that plays an important role in resisting the Russian genocidal invasion, 31.03.2022. This CDI Dispatch is based on the article “The Azov Regiment and Western Moral Procrastination” published in several languages (If the established media are interested in translating and publishing this article in other languages, do contact the CDI)
- ➡️ La Stampa (Italy)
- ➡️ El Confidencial (Spain)
- ➡️ Kathimerini (Greece)
- ➡️ EuromaidanPress (Ukraine [English])
- ➡️ Kvartal (Sweden)
- ➡️ Desk-Russie (France)
- ➡️ Minerva (Norway)
- Los Angeles Times: For centuries, the Ukrainian language was overshadowed by its Russian cousin. That’s changing, by Matt Pearce, 30.03.2022: “Between late February and March 20, the number of users taking Ukrainian language courses on the popular language app Duolingo increased by 577%, according to the company, with Ukrainian moving from the 33rd most-popular language to 13th most-popular on the app.” … “In Poland, which sits on Ukraine’s western border, the number of Duolingo users studying Ukrainian has increased by 2,677%, according to the company, which said it was donating its related ad revenues to refugee relief efforts.”
- ACC: EPAM is helping the Ukrainian universities save critically important infrastructure, 29/03/2022: “Since the beginning of the war, specialists from EPAM — the leading IT company in Ukraine — have helped more than ten Ukrainian universities. Together with critical infrastructure, they have migrated their servers to the cloud that enables remote learning. EPAM experts together with the partners from Amazon Web Services have helped universities in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro and other cities. They are ready to provide their support to other higher education institutions (HEI) in the active combat zones.”
- UNICEF Press-release “More than half of Ukraine’s children displaced after one month of war”, 24.03.2022: “One month of war in Ukraine has led to the displacement of 4.3 million children – more than half of the country’s estimated 7.5 million child population. This includes more than 1.8 million children who have crossed into neighbouring countries as refugees and 2.5 million who are now internally displaced inside Ukraine.“
- Kooperation International (Germany): DAAD and HAWs want to study and research from Ukraine digitally, in German, 24.03.2022
- The Hill: Stop treating Russia as a normal member of the international system, by Daniel Spiegel and Alan Larson, 24.03.2022
- Impulspapier “Krieg in der Ukraine: Auswirkungen auf die europäische und deutsche Importstrategie von Wasserstoff und Syntheseprodukten“, Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI, Karlsruhe, March 2022
- Science I Business: Germany sets out new details of scientific sanctions against Russia, by David Matthews, 22.03.2022
- THE: Russia bars academics from international conferences, 22.03.2022: “Russia’s government has barred its researchers from participating in international conferences and will stop indexing Russian scientists’ publications in international databases, according to its Ministry of Science and Higher Education.”
- Science I Business: War in Ukraine: Commission to review research agenda, says Paquet, by Florin Zubașcu, 22.03.2022
- World University Serice News: Solidarität jetzt – Internationale Studierende aus der Ukraine brauchen Perspektive auf Fortsetzung ihres Studiums in Deutschland und der EU
- Science I Business: Ukrainian scientists say they need bullets, not grants, by Goda Naujokaitytė and Florin Zubașcu, 18.03.2022
- ResearchProfessional: ERC launches initiative to help Ukrainian refugees, by Craig Nicholson, 18.03.2022
- Researchers around the world band together to help fleeing Ukrainian scientists, the Chemistry World , 16.03.2022
- EMBO Reports: Rubble to Rouble: how can science respond to war?, by Bernd Pulverer EMBO Reports (2022)23:e55002 https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.202255002
- Ukraine’s Wild Card,
- Serhii Plokhii and Timothy Snyder “The War in Ukraine and Universal Values“, IVM Vienna, (YouTube), 14.03.2022
- University of Tartu College of Foreign Languages and Cultures starts teaching Ukrainian, by Silver Tambur, Estonian world, 14.03.2022
- Science I Business: Canada hits science ties with Russia, creates fund for Ukrainian students, 12.03.2022
- Hochschulforum Digitalisierung: Help for people from Ukraine – how universities get involved/ Hilfe für Menschen aus der Ukraine – was Hochschulen jetzt bewegen, by Leandra Müller-Wolf, 11.03.2022
- Kharkiv University’s building damaged due to shelling, National News Agency of Ukraine – Ukrinform, 11.03.2022
- Science I Business: Ukraine demands journal publishers and university rankings agencies stop working with Russia, 10.03.2022
- Science I Business: Russian rectors’ support for Putin prompts UK universities to cut links, 10.03.2022
- Rest of World: Ukraine’s thriving tech sector tries to hang on even as Russia’s attacks intensify, by Masha Borak (9.03.2022): “If Ukraine becomes unavailable, there will be visible effects on the global IT industry”
- Science I Business: Universities start scoping out how to help Ukrainian academics fleeing the war, by Goda Naujokaitytė and Florin Zubașcu, 08.03.2022
- STAR (Student Action for Refugees), UK: post “Information for students affected by the invasion of Ukraine“, 08.03.2022
- “Appeals are not enough” with Prof. Dr. Olga Garaschuk, Kreis Tübingen, 08.03.2022
- “So much violence and cruelty”: Ukraine academics describe invasion, the Pie news, 07.03.2022
- Science I Business: European University Association suspends Russian members over pro-war statement, 07.03.2022
- Chemistry labs offer space for researchers from Ukraine, Stockholm University, with comments from Ievgen Pylypchuk, researcher in surface chemistry and nanomaterials at the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University, 07.03.2022 (updated)
- В Україні більше 2 тисяч іноземних студентів страждають через Росію – Верещук, Ukrainian Pravda, 06.03.2022
- The Guild: Time for Action: Universities supporting researchers, academics and students affected by the war in Ukraine, 04.03.2022
- Humboldt-Stiftung (Germany): “Europe should have acted sooner”. Interview with the Ukrainian scientist Dmytro Leontyev about the current situation, further options for international cooperation and the West’s naivety, 04.03.2022. Dmytro Leontyev is thehead of the Department of Botany at the H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is currently a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Greifswald
- An open letter in support of Ukraine from Nobel laureates, the Economist, 03.03.2022
- Chemists respond to invasion of Ukraine, by Laura Howes, with reporting by Michael McCoy and Leigh Krietsch Boerner, 03.03.2022
- Aid measures for students, researchers and teachers who have fled Ukraine started: DAAD calls for support for German universities, in German. Forschung. Wissen. Innovation, 03.03.2022
- Estonia: TalTech waives tuition for Ukrainian students, 02.03.2022
- Russia’s “̶P̶e̶a̶c̶e̶k̶e̶e̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶i̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶s̶”̶ WARS for the last 30 years and their consequences, by Ukrainer project, 02.03.2022
- Research Europe: How the research community can stand with Ukraine, by Oksana Seumenicht, 01.03.2022
- Gastbeitrag von DAAD-Präsident Joybrato Mukherjee: Was Science Diplomacy in Kriegszeiten bedeutet, 01.03.2022
- The PIE News: “My city is destroyed”: sector rallies behind Ukraine but more support needed, by
February 2022
- Personal statement from the Dalai Lama: Hope for Dialogue to Restore Peace in Ukraine, 28.02.2022
- Science I Business: The view from Kyiv: Head of Ukraine’s research agency calls for international help, by Florin Zubașcu spoken to Olga Polotska, the executive director of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU), 28.02.2022
- BMBF, Germany: Stark-Watzinger: Wir müssen geopolitisch anders denken, 28.02.2022
- Science: After invasion, Ukrainian researchers turn into resistance fighters and refugees, by Richard Stone, 28.02.2022
- Friedenskundgebungen in Reutlingen und Tübingen: Gegen Krieg und für Flüchtlingshilfe, mit einem Beitrag von Olga Garaschuk, SWR, 28.02.2022
- University World News: EU under pressure to halt science cooperation with Russia, 26.02.2022
- Russia’s War of Words with Ukraine, the author comments: “Dear publishers. I gave the comments to the Publishers Weekly before the full-scale war with Russia had started. But now I want to add a few things: There is NO WAY of ethical collaboration with any Russian entity while Russia is bombing Ukraine. I ask publishers all over the world to ban and exclude Russian publishing companies from any kind of business — untill Russia will stop this cruelty and all of it’s crimes against Ukraine and against humanity”, Publishers Weekly, 25.02.2022
- US, EU and allies rachet up moves to isolate Russia technologically, Science|Business Network, 25.02.2022
- German universities told to freeze ties with Russia in retaliation for invasion, Science|Business Network, 24.02.2022
- Ukrainian universities suspend activities on their campuses in the wake of Russian invasion. “In neighbouring Romania, universities are offering help to Ukrainian academics and students, as the bombing intensifies”, Science|Business Network, 24.02.2022
- Tübinger Neurophysiologin rät zu klarer Kante gegen Putin, Für die Familie der Tübinger Neurophysiologin Olga Garaschuk aus Kiew ist der Krieg nicht erst jetzt eine Lebensrealität. Von Christiane Hoyer, 19.02.2022