Dr. Dmitry Dubrovskiy (Charles University) will be giving his talk "Academic Freedom in Russia: Between Bologna and 'Foreign Agent' Legislation." This lecture is part of the ongoing Dolliver Series on Universities and Authoritarianism. 

Dr. Dubrovskiy is a research fellow at the Department of Social Sciences and lecturer at the Boris Nemtsov MA in Russian Studies at the Department of Philosophy, Charles University. Dr. Dubrovskiy, an alumnus of St. Petersburg State University and European University in St Petersburg, founded and directed the Ethnic Studies Programme at the European University in St Petersburg in 1999-2005. He was also the founder and lecturer of the Human Rights program at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Science at St Petersburg State University (2004-15). Until March 2022, Dr. Dubrovskiy was an associate professor at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). In early April 2022, he was declared a "foreign agent" in Russia and left the country. Dr Dubrovskiy is currently working at Charles University in Prague, with his research interest focusing on academic rights and freedoms, freedom of speech and minority rights.