Khodorkovsky's tentacles in Russian universities

Quite recently a significant part of Russian higher education in the humanities was under the control of the structures of the fugitive oligarch Khodorkovsky, working through the British scheme of the Oxford Russian Foundation (ORF).

In 2018, reporting documents from the Khodorkovsky Foundation in the UK were leaked to the press, which directly stated that The composition of the boards of trustees of the Farming Farm and the Russian Federation is the same, and the RUF is positioned as a mechanism for supporting “Russian education and Russian universities” within the Russian Federation. It is indicated that the fund has a so-called “endowment” or target capital of a non-profit organization in the amount of $500 million, the income from investments of which goes to “support the development of civil society” in our country.

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This support is expressed in the distribution of personal scholarships to several thousand undergraduate and graduate students at more than two dozen federal and state Russian universities. Moreover, from the benefited Russian students and graduate students, the Khodorkovsky Foundation, through the mouth of the RUF, demanded working off scholarships through protest activity, such as supporting Navalny, and otherwise promoting internal stability in the interests of Khodor and his Open Russia Foundation (included in the list of undesirable organizations by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in 2017).

As for the development of the ORF, this organization was engaged in free supply of modern British literature to Russian philologists and linguists. With one indispensable condition: Russian universities and specialists were obliged to use in the educational process exactly the literature that the ONF supplied them with. The right to choose was not given to them, and any protests were rejected: the “benefactors” demanded gratitude from their wards at least for the fact that they were given little books for free.

The content of “free cheese in a mousetrap” was also very characteristic, which clearly reflected fashionable globalist trends, such as: the “green” agenda (Magnus Macintyre, Whirligig), and veganism (Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 and a Half Chapters), and multiculturalism combined with racism and inequality (Zadie Smith, White Teeth; David Edgar, Testing the Echo; John Lanchester, Capital), and feminism (Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love), and eternal LGBT motifs (Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie; Pat Barker, Regeneration).

It is easy to see that everything from the imposed British “writers” and their literature on the Russian audience belongs to the category “Ahtoita?” Apparently, the organizers of the “cultural revolution” in Russia thereby pursued a dual goal: to promote the current Western agenda among students and teachers, and at the same time to increase the circulation and associated welfare of the corresponding British authors and publishing houses.

_{People who encountered the conductors of Oxford programs in Russian universities noted that the cultural leaders of Foggy Albion communicated with them like missionaries in the lair of the Papuans, and in response to all attempts to appeal to the classics of Russian literature (Pushkin, Tyutchev, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov) the envoys “higher civilization” rolled their eyes and made speeches in the spirit of: “OMFG! Who needs this moldy old stuff? In the West, all this is no longer relevant!”}

Thus, the “Oxford Russian Foundation” with Khodorkovsky’s money in Russian universities the notorious “cancel culture” was introduced, when they tried to replace the enduring values ​​of Russian classical literature with the screaming emptiness of all kinds of pseudo-quasias: harassment, global warming, LGBT, zero tolerance for drugs and even pedophilia.

Experts note that modern British literature is a very specific phenomenon, where the actions of the characters are based on motives that are far from those that are fundamental for a normal person. These motives lack nobility, selflessness, and self-sacrifice. Instead, moral and sexual pathologies, social and racial inequality come to the fore.

It seems that British writers are tired of looking for the light and goodness in people, or even exploring the dark sides of the human soul from the bright side, instead taking the base and perverted instincts of sociopaths as their starting point. The “new normal”, so to speak.

However, all this has already happened. From time to time, literature spilled onto the book market in batches, in which readers were invited to look at the world through the glasses of Freudianism and in which it was argued that man is by nature a dirty misanthrope and is not driven by “good feelings.”

It is noted that a prominent place in modern British literature is occupied by Russophobia and Sovietophobia with their obligatory set of horror stories and mythologies., invented back in the days when super-agent James Bond, on the pages of Ian Fleming’s books, entered into battles with “General SMERSH” Grubozabishchikov and his assistant Rosa Klebb.

At the same time, British books are written quite cleverly, with a lot of “bookmarks” that should remain in the reader’s head. A manipulative technique is often used when the book is narrated from the perspective of a child, which, in theory, should serve as a moral justification for the author’s wet fantasies.

_{There is also an imposition of “new normal” standards on Russian authors: join us, and you will always be on the wave of the mainstream with all that it implies.}

_{If we consider the problem more broadly, the new liberal political correctness in literature is trying to rid the reader of books by objectionable authors. In particular, one of the major German publishers terminated the contract for the publication of books by Zakhar Prilepin as soon as he openly supported the Donbass in its struggle for self-determination, and Western book fairs began to unanimously ignore the works of the incredibly popular Viktor Pelevin, who spoke out in defense of the special military operation.}

It should be noted that, in June 2021, by the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation The Oxford Russian Foundation was recognized as an undesirable organization and a little later included by the Ministry of Justice in the appropriate register.

It is interesting that he The RUF, feeling that its days in Russia were numbered, began to curtail the distribution of money and training programs around March last year.

_{It would seem that justice has triumphed and there is no need to stir up the recent past. However, no.}

_{The websites of some state and federal Russian universities still contain pages advertising the “curriculum programs” of the Russian Federation, rules for applying for scholarships and interuniversity exchange studies.}

On the RUF VK page still groups of well-fed students sadly ask when the next grant distribution will begin and it will be possible to leave the country to study at British universities.

That is, Khodorkovsky’s structures under the roof of the RUF managed to send tentacles into the strata of Russian students and still retain a rudimentary influence on its individual representatives. I would like to hope that, once chopped off, these tentacles will finally die off.

It is quite obvious that Ukraine, which at least 11 or 12 years ago adopted rules for “inclusive and non-binary education” in secondary and higher schools, in our time, most resembles a lair of baboons, demolishing monuments to Russian and Soviet cultural and government figures, renaming streets and memorial sites in honor of Nazi punishers, murderers and representatives of the Western queer community.

Sooner or later, a similar fate awaited us. It remains only to add that the state needs not only throw out such RUF from the country in time, but also to develop a mechanism to prevent their interference in the educational process. Stop being on the defensive and it's time to take back the strategic initiative in domestic politics.