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Features Moral dilemmas Russian researchers between Scylla and Charybdis

This publication shares with the reader autobiographical reflections of five scholars who still live and work in different regions of Russia. These social scientists have not left Russia for various reasons, which they themselves explain in their reflections. After having met at an informal meeting in early 2024, they have decided to voice their concerns about their troubled professional ethos caused by censorship, ideological pressure and repressive legislature. These concerns they conceptualize as moral dilemmas challenging their professional activities. We have decided to publish these texts and to preserve their voices in order to let them tell their own stories to the reader. However, for the sake of security, all authors have decided to be pseudonymized

Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds BW 2024:3 pages 31-44
Published on balticworlds.com on September 18, 2024

Following up Dmitry Dubrovsky’s article, published in this journal, on the Russian academic community at the start of the war in Ukraine,1 this compilation of essays written by scholars who remain in Russia hopefully allows for a more nuanced picture of the professional experiences social science scholars have had since the war in Ukraine started.
This publication shares with the reader autobiographical reflections of five scholars who still live and work in different regions of Russia. These social scientists have not left Russia for various reasons, which they themselves explain in their reflections. After having met at an informal meeting in early 2024, they have decided to voice their concerns about their troubled professional ethos caused by censorship, ideological pressure and repressive legislature. These concerns they conceptualize as moral dilemmas challenging their professional activities.
We have decided to publish these texts and to preserve their voices in order to let them tell their own stories to the reader. However, for the sake of security, all authors have decided to be pseudonymized. ≈

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reference

1 Dimitry Dubrovsky, “War and the Academic Community in Russia”, Baltic Worlds, vol. 15, no. 1—2 (2022): 38—44.

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