-OpEd-
BERLIN The rise of populists has given way to an alarming reaction among so-called elites. Many of them are blaming themselves for not having considered those who have been left behind, for not having paid attention to the needs of common people.
Journalists blame themselves for having be.
Punishing Russian academics and students for a government policy that is rejected by a large proportion of them has no progressive content whatsoever. On the contrary, it is an aggressive act, accompanied by a furious anti-Russia campaign in culture and public life, designed to demonise everything Russian and to put science at the service of foreign and war policy.