The Higher School of Economics deprived the DOXA magazine of its status as a student organization

The Council of the HSE Student Initiatives Support Fund has stripped DOXA magazine of its status as a student organization. about this with reference to the head of the fund and adviser to the rector Oleg Solodukhin. writes MBKh Media

Solodukhin is sure that the magazine caused reputational damage to the university. “What right did the HSE student organization have to write something about other universities? This is simply unacceptable, a violation of any rules of decency,” he said.

Due to this decision, DOXA will lose the support of the university. “We cannot book classrooms, we cannot apply for funding, we cannot use the equipment that was provided to us and which we received on a competitive basis, and many such things,” said magazine editor Armen Aramyan.

The vote to ban the organization’s activities at the university began after a complaint from RSSU Rector Natalya Pochinok about an article about it published in a student magazine. The rector called the material discrediting the business reputation of the university.

After this, the legal department of the National Research University Higher School of Economics handed over a report to the magazine, which states that “many publications have violated the business reputation” of the university. For example, “5 real reasons not to enroll in HSE.”

In addition, in several DOXA publications , lawyers found “signs of political activism”: “Which of the worst rectors are you,” “Cold Summer 2019” and “We can get a new Bolotnaya.”

The magazine reports that “according to their information,” the rector of the university, Yaroslav Kuzminov, voted against their activities at the university. team The DOXA demanded an “open discussion” from the HSE administration about revoking its status.

DOXA positions itself as an independent student magazine and writes about problematic topics in the university environment. During the summer protests, DOXA created its own bot in the Telegram channel to help students, and then collected funds for fines and sureties for those involved in the “Moscow case.”