In Saratov, a professor was interrogated because of an ironic post about Russian education

Saratov State University professor Vera Afanasyeva was interrogated by an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs because of an ironic post about Russian education. This was reported on March 14 by the Vzglyad-Info publication.

The reason for the interrogation was the material posted on the Internet on January 12, 2017 “ Five reasons why you should not become a professor ”, a pre-investigation check has been launched on it.

“Being a professor is now completely uninteresting, because from now on he is not an intellectual, but a clerk, a paper scribbler. The professors were tortured (although another word is asked) with useless lists, information, ratings, questionnaires, portfolios, programs, plans, plans on plans, reports, reports on reports - fortunately, our paper industry, as before, works perfectly. And today's professors have to write so much of any regulated nonsense that they do scientific research, work on books, communicate with their own kind, and what's there - there is simply no time to think. The mountains of waste paper that come out from the pen of the current professor can be the envy of any paranoid graphomaniac. Any department, any university has long been an office that writes and writes everything. And where there are papers, there are officials to check, ”wrote Afanasyeva, Doctor of Philosophy.

The initiator of the investigation was the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets in Saratov. The editorial board filed a complaint with the prosecutor of the Saratov region, Sergei Filipenko, from there the material was sent to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On March 14, Afanasyeva was interrogated by Sergey Reshetnikov, an employee of the department for combating economic crimes and combating corruption. The professor was interested in the statement itself and she asked to photograph the document, but the policeman refused to do so. According to the scientist, she is still a witness in this case, as the police officer explained.