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Lena Surzhko Harned is a Ukrainian American political scientist. As a specialist in Eastern Europe, she has evaluated this war over the past year from her professional perspective. Yet this war is also deeply personal.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced a $3 million donation to a group of scientific organizations aiming to rebuild global scientific infrastructure in Ukraine on Oct. 24. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Polish Academy of Sciences will lead the organizations, which will include groups from Ukraine, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France and Australia.
More money to help Ukrainian academics is being allocated to the Researchers at Risk Fellowship scheme in the United Kingdom.
The national science academies of the United States, the all-European academy and those of four separate European countries released, with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a short statement on rebuilding “a modern and globally integrated science and research system” in Ukraine.
As Vladimir Putin continues his assault on Ukraine, the differences between the Russian and Ukrainian languages have become part of the public discourse in the West
The full extent of the damage on scholars and research from Ukraine will not be known for some time, but predictions are grim.
David Canter considers the sorts of psychological processes that may be shaping Vladimir Putin’s actions.
