February 22, 2008
Russian Court Shuts Down University That Ran Politically Sensitive Project
A Russian court has ordered a university that receives support from Western organizations and had offered courses in election monitoring to shut down immediately, in what professors said was the first time an entire university had been closed for political reasons under President Vladimir Putin.
The ruling, issued by a court in St. Petersburg this month, shut down the European University of St. Petersburg just as a semester was about to start and after many of the 170 students who were
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