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Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists No. 25

T-invariant and the CISRUS center are releasing another press release “Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists” No. 25 dated September 30, 2025. The first issue of “Chronicles of the Persecution of Scientists” was published exactly two years ago on September 30, 2023. Today we will summarize some results of the work of the repressive machine of the Russian authorities.

Russian Books in Exile: Secret Routes and Bookish Heroes

Following the start of the war, dozens of Russian-language small presses sprang up beyond Russia’s borders. Recently, their representatives — Aglaia Asheshova (“Turgenev Library”), Igor Ivanov (Skaryna Press), Yakov Klots (Tamizdat Project), Evgeny Kogan (“Babel Books,” Tel Aviv), Maxim Kurnikov (“Echo Book”), and Alexander Gavrilov (Vidim Books) — gathered for a panel discussion at the “Prague Book Tower” book fair (Sept’25).

“Not an Enemy, but a Friend of the People”: The Trial of a Kurchatov Institute Employee

The Gatchina District Court has resumed hearings in the case of Dmitry Bogmut, a technician at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named after B.P. Konstantinov (part of the Kurchatov Institute). After the onset of the war in Ukraine, Bogmut posted anti-war videos in a private thread on a forum with only a dozen users. He has been held in a pre-trial detention center for a year and a half and faces up to ten years in prison. Court hearings are regularly attended by a crowd of men in camouflage, seemingly organized as “extras”, identified as “Donbas volunteers.” Meanwhile, the names of activists supporting Bogmut have been publicly disclosed by state news agencies, leading to threats against them.

Next-Generation Skin: How a Tel Aviv Innovation Accelerates Burn Healing

Laboratory-grown skin grafts are already part of the medical toolkit. However, a project from Tel Aviv University, supported by Zimin Institutes, promises a breakthrough in near-authentic skin transplant: dense, elastic, and multi-layered. In experimental mice, hair even grows at the burn site. T-Invariant explores how this technology was developed and how close it is to clinical application.

Date of incident: September 19, 2025
Incident Type: Foreign Agent
Institution: Independent Investigator

Ease of Translation: How, with the Start of the War, Translation Plagiarism from Ukrainian Has Gained Popularity in Russian Academic Circles

The development of large language models has dramatically improved the quality of machine translation and made such tools widely accessible throughout the world. These technological advances coincided with the onset of Russia’s full-scale military aggression against Ukraine. As a result, a phenomenon we can characterize as academic looting has emerged and become widespread. This is the subject of today’s issue of Plagiarism Navigator.

Incident Date: September 8, 2025
Incident Type: Administrative Prosecution
Institution: Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University (YSPU)

Incident Date: September 5, 2025
Incident Type: Foreign Agent
Institution: Harvard University