From Oxford historian Georgy Kantor on Twitter:
The best Russian expert (and genuinely important scholar) on Neo-Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy, Svetlana Mesiats, has been put under house arrest in the investigation of ‘fraudulent translations of Aristotle’. https://iphras.ru/messiats.htm
He explains:
About 10 people been called for interrogation, there are searches in the Institute of Philosophy building. Apparently a revenge for the refusal to elect Anatoly Chernyaev, an ideologist of the Ukrainian war, as the Institute director. Truly back to 1937.
I hope it’s not really back to 1937, or they’ll be excecuted, and not only harassed and arrested. What a disgrace.
(Thanks to J.J. Loo for the pointer.)



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