Locked out of archives, scholars forced to study Russia from afar

Complete shutdown in access since invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russian studies, say historians finding ways to keep discipline going

Published on
November 6, 2025
Last updated
November 6, 2025
Emily Dixon
A man looking for items on the shelves (many of which are in the dark) in the Russian State Library in Moscow, Russia, 2018. To illustrate that a lack of archival access have transformed Russia studies
Source: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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#1 Submitted by o.... on November 6, 2025 - 11:03am
Your writing, sadly, has lost credibility from the very first sentence, because it should be ОХРАНКА = OKHRANKA, thus suggesting that you might not be rigorously checking facts… Olga Kuznetsova

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