Novosibirsk: Students were offered to change diplomas about Oximiron and Dudia

Students-journalists of the Novosibirsk State University (NSU) were recommended to rename the topics of the thesis due to the "unpredictability of the political situation," told Taiga.info graduates on anonymity.

According to students, teachers do not force to change the names of the work, but warn of possible risks due to the political views of the chairman of the diploma commission, which is changing every year.

Thus, the name of the work about rapper Oximiron (Miron Fedorov) "How Media Persons" turned into "Modern Russian musical journalism: genre-thematic aspect."

Students were also offered to change the names of topics about the journalists of Yuri Dudia, Irina Shikhman and film documentary Vitaly Mansky.

On the March pre-defense of the thesis, it was forbidden to take the films of Mansky “Putin's Witnesses” and “In the Rays of the Sun” because of “ridicule of politics”, Siberia confirmed. Realities among students.

“I had the right to leave the topic, but in order to stay prudent, I decided to change it. I had to start doing everything from scratch in March,” said the student with the topic about Oximiron.

“They argued simply by the phrase that the situation could change closer to the country, and that they want to save us from possible problems. They sincerely wanted to help. This is rather not an order from above, but a reinsurance,” Taiga said another student.

• The Novosibirsk State University is headed by the deputy of the regional legislative assembly by Mikhail Fedoruk, who ran to the parliament with the support of Governor Andrei Travnikov (United Russia).
• In the early days of the war in Ukraine in the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, student protests were held, which ended with detentions. According to Siberia. Realities, after which the rector of NSU Mikhail Fedoruk called some students to his office for a conversation.