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Russia’s Institute of Philosophy Raided over Fraud Case Tied to Aristotle Translation Project — the Institute Had Previously Been Accused of Disloyalty to the Kremlin.

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Security personnel raided the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences as part of a fraud investigation into funds allocated for a translation of Aristotle. The pro-government Telegram channels Zapiski Traditsionalista (“Notes of a Traditionalist”) and AGDChan — the latter linked to philosopher Alexander Dugin — were among the first to report the searches. The post on AGDChan was later deleted, but a copy survives.

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The employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the RON have been searched in a case of fraud with money allocated for the transfer of Aristotle...

The police arrested ten employees of the Institute of Philosophy, several have not been arrested since, and nothing is known about them.

·Hungary
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The Russian Investigation Committee, responsible for the most sensitive files and directly subordinated to the Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, carried out searches at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and detained about ten researchers, reports The Moscow Times and The Insider.The raid took place on Wednesday, and the researchers detained, including the interim director, academic Abdusalam Husseinov (87 years), were r…

·Bucharest, Romania
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The criminal case of fraud led to the placement of a staff member of the Institute of Philosophy of the RAN Svetlana Month under house arrest, who was selected yesterday by the Tver Raisal Court of Moscow from a file file. The Institute was subjected to searches and interrogations. According to the media sources of the T-Invariant science and repression, about 10 staff members were taken for questioning, including Abdusalam Hussainov, who was 87…

The Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IFRAN) has launched a pogrom on the transfer cases of Aristotle, which is being written in the relevant academic publication T-Invariant and RBK, which refers to "two sources familiar with the progress of the criminal investigation." The detention takes place on the basis of a particularly large fraud case (art. 159, para. 4, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The figu…

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