Academic Rights and Freedom in Russia: Researchers' Views Introduction to the Special Issue

The first deals with ideas about academic freedom; the second looks at Russian education management practices that directly affect the level of academic freedom in Russia. [...]the first two papers-by Potapova and by Dmitry Dubrovsky & Irina Meyer (Olimpieva)-consider how "academic freedom" is formulated and in what conditions it is used. According to Potapova, however, not everyone sees such restrictions as a violation of academic freedom. [...]we literally put ourselves in shackles. According to one respondent: "There is an anxiety that you will do what you should not do, that you need to be as careful as possible with your research conclusions."