HSE students collect signatures for the creation of an alternative Student Council

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The HSE administration announced elections to the Student Council (Student Council) for 2024–2025. At the same time, according to the new regulations at the university, in these elections the university administration will be able to exclude from the lists any candidate that the management does not like, block the decisions of the body, and also establish full control over the students in the Student Council, making the Student Council actually a controlled organization of the HSE.

“ All of the above does not make it possible to trust neither the process, nor the results of these elections, nor the further work of the body formed based on their results ,” said members of the previous HSE Student Council.

The previous Student Council who refused In April 2024, the HSE administration dissolved the HSE Student Council due to the fact that the student government body resisted the inclusion of representatives of the “First Movement” in its composition. obey the administration, announced the collection of signatures in favor of a “legitimate and independent Student Council”, which will have independence from the administration, full transparency of decisions and direct control from the students themselves. To convene a conference on the creation and discussion of an independent Student Council, they only had to collect about 600 student signatures for HSE.

At the same time, the HSE administration tried to prevent the collection of signatures for the creation of a new independent Student Council by blocking the ability to log in to the initiative’s website via Yandex ID. In addition, the ability to send letters from the HSE corporate email to the independent Student Council domain studsovet.now was also blocked. At some point, the collection of signatures had to be suspended altogether due to pressure and blockages from the management.

Students:ki report that the website for collecting signatures is now working again, and the collection itself will continue until 23:59 on November 24.