Russia: academic fired from St. Petersburg university after supporting jailed 'anti-war' artist in court

Svetlana Drugoveyko-Dolzhanskaya, a philologist who provided expert testimony supporting Sasha Skochilenko, a jailed artist who is currently under investigation for replacing supermarket price tags with anti-war statements, has been fired from her teaching position at St. Petersburg State University.

Drugoveyko-Dolzhanskaya now said that she had been fired for “committing an amoral act” and said she would challenge the decision in court despite not expecting a verdict in her favour.

theodewere,
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Russia produces nothing but cowardice

andrew_bidlaw,

She was in education, humanities at that, and her boss fired her just for doing her work, not showing her own opinion but implying other’s opinion doesn’t fall under maneating laws, as a private party not represented her org.

Imagine now what BS is taught there if the head of usually the most progressive department fires their employees for that. In the most hipsteric city. Where many people drove to bordering EU countries for holidays.

It’s like the last place you are to find a fucko, yet there they are. Little ratass was probably afraid it may-or-may-not put a spot on their career, and fired them just in case. And some were probably snitching on her to them.

If fucking philologists, teachers, journalists, translators have this human garbage as their head, it’s a fucking dead end. They shape kids, they shape information, they shape perception. And they are where the real indocrination starts.

I’m probably overreacting to that non-surprising turn, but it means one another safeguard is lost, and even if this country stops firing, it may have a couple of generations who are full-on happy about starting another war. If their teacher instil hatred, manage classes about how it’s ok to die because we end up in the heaven unlike these untermenschen (actual quote), show current media AIDS as a learning material, this can’t be undone. This can turn a country into a beast that would bite every neighbor and bring misery to civilians everywhere for decades.

Although too young, I feel like I failed at doing something at the right time. A little something that could save endless lives. Something, that could could unfuck this horror. And I did nothing before it’s too late.

Sorry for my deprrssed ramblings, but please don’t try emphatize with me. There are people who need it more. Those this jailed artist wanted us to care about.

qooqie,

Imagine just saying “I don’t agree with the government on this” and you go to jail. And the citizens of said country still largely support the dictatorship. Wild.

Jajcus,

'supporting the dictatorship' is the easiest way to live relatively safe life there. It is hard to blame people for trying to survive. Yes that is not a healthy society, but that is not easy to change.

ChaoticEntropy,
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And the citizens of said country still largely support the dictatorship.

Well… you go to jail if you don’t.

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