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Mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky was included in the Rosfinmonitoring register of “terrorists and extremists”
Mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky was included in the register of “terrorists and extremists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring.
His name has an asterisk on the list; this indicates that a case was opened against Verbitsky in absentia under terrorism charges.
RIA Novosti claimed in November 2024 that the mathematician who condemned the war in Ukraine was being prosecuted under the article on calls for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).
“Oh, misfortune <…> It should have been expected, of course. Hello,” he commented on the absentee case on his blog.
Mikhail Verbitsky left Russia in 2015 after becoming a witness in the case of publicist Boris Stomakhin. In an interview with Cold magazine in 2023, he said that he lives in Rio de Janeiro and teaches at the Brazilian Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics ( IMPA ).
In the 2000s, Verbitsky created the blog hosting site lj.rossia as an independent alternative to LiveJournal and still maintains his blog tiphareth there. Before emigrating, he taught at the Independent Moscow University and at the Higher School of Economics.
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