"For education and science!" Leaflet for a meeting at Lenin Square, Saturday 11 November. This Saturday, 11 November, students and staff of St Petersburg universities will protest in support of the European University at St Petersburg, which is now on the brink of closure. The meeting’s agenda also includes protesting against the amalgamation of the city’s Publishing and Printing College and the College of Construction and City Administration, political repressions in the education sector, optimisation and cuts, as well as the influence of the Orthodox Church.
You can find more details about the action here. The original manifesto, in Russian, is here.
We, students and graduates of the European University at St Petersburg (EUSP), which is currently facing closure, declare that our university is being persecuted on political grounds. This text is our manifesto, we call on the public to join us in our fight against the ideologisation and bureaucratisation of education and other spheres of intellectual and cultural production. We call on anyone who cannot remain indifferent to help us to stop the closure of the European University, and resist the destruction of Russian education and culture.
