Russian University Closed for Electoral Monitoring Course

The European University of St. Petersburg has been forced to shut down for a week, Kommersant reported on February 11th. The official reason was a court order charging the school with breaching fire code in its buildings. University staff believe that “political motives” are at play, and that the actual reason is a grant the school received from the European Union in February 2007. Maxim Reznik, the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, was convinced: “It’s clear [the clos

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