March 30, 2007

Protest at a Russian University Attracts International Attention

By BRYON MACWILLIAMS

An unprecedented campaign by students at Moscow State University to influence the conditions and curricula in the sociology department has been marked by arrests and accusations that the student activists are "paid provocateurs" and "extremists."

Police have detained students twice since late February, when activists, calling themselves the OD Group, first demanded changes in the department, whose standards they say fall well short of the reputation of an institution regarded as the

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