CALL FOR SUPPORT FROM SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS AT MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY
CALL FOR SUPPORT FROM SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS AT MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY
Please sign our petition:
We, a group of students of the Sociology Department at Moscow State University, have asked the department’s administration to improve the quality of teaching, stop force-feeding us with ultranationalist propaganda, and ensure acceptable conditions of life and study. In response to our demands, the administration has stepped up repressive measures: friends who were distributing leaflets have been arrested by the police; individual students have been threatened; and the dean’s office and a servile student’s committee have written a letter to the rector (president) of the university asking to clamp down on any unapproved student protest actions, campaigns, or meetings on campus. All this is part of an attempt to muzzle us and create a wall of silence to conceal the dramatic state of affairs at the department…