Pivovari historian biography

In Moscow, academician Yuri Pivovarov was arrested in absentia. The plot of the case resembles the story of the rector "Shaninka". It was excited five years ago. Pivovarov was treated abroad. In February, the historian joined the opponents of the war against Ukraine. The Investigative Committee of Russia demanded in absentia of Pivovarov in the case of embezzlement, the press secretary of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, which entered the case materials, said on Tuesday.

The case is being investigated in the region of scientific interests - history, political science, law, says in its profile on the website of INION. There he is still indicated as the supervisor of the institute. The old case himself Pivovarov said that he had brought him the case, at the end of March of the year, that is, more than five years ago. Investigators, according to him, suspected him of registering two employees who actually did not go to work, while receiving a salary.

The plot of suspicion recalls the case of Marina Rakakova, in which last fall, the rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences "Shaninka" Sergey Zuev was arrested. The rector of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Mau, was sent under house arrest on charges of embezzlement "They [investigators] indicate that two employees worked at the institute - one woman received 1 million rubles and the other employee of thousands, but they did not go to work.

Allegedly, I did all this as part of an organized group," TASS quoted TASS in March. The agency’s source then clarified that the case is investigated under Art. According to the investigation, the cause of the fire was the flowing roof - the water fell into the lamp, a short circuit occurred. By this time, he left the post of director of the institute, but retained the position of scientific director INION.

Investigators took from him a recognizance not to leave him. And two years later, a new criminal case of fraud appeared. At the investigation stage, the historian found an oncological disease - a serious form of lymphoma of the central nervous system, and the investigator allowed him to leave the country for surgical treatment in Israel, and then in Germany, writes the new newspaper.

According to it, over the past five years, the academician has experienced several operations. Pivovarov through lawyers passed medical documents and conclusions of doctors, after which the investigative actions were postponed with him, the publication notes. Against the war after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, the historian became one of the members of the anti -war committee, which entered the opposition and public figures in exile.

At the end of June, in the Basmanny Court of Moscow, according to Novaya Gazeta. Europe, “Paper entered”, signed by the head of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee Denis Kolesnikov, which, among other things, said that the Pivovarov accused under articles on fraud and embezzlement is in no hurry to return to Russia. The investigation asked the scientist for two months, saying that, being free in Germany, he could "continue to engage in criminal activity." From the same document quoted by the "new", it follows that Pivovarov was put on the international wanted list.

Anastasia Lotareva, correspondent of the Russian BBC service about who Yuri Pivovarov is: Yuri Pivovarov is probably one of the most remarkable figures in modern Russian historical science. As often happens recently in a scientific environment, all these regalia is accompanied by a criminal case.

In January, in the south-west of Moscow, the library of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences burned down. The architectural monument burned for 27 hours, destroyed more than 5 million different publications with fire, many of them are unique and not restored. Many members of the scientific community and city defenders suggested that the fire was provoked.

A criminal case of negligence was opened on Pivovarov. Two years later, the second criminal case was added to him - now about fraud. The investigation considered that several employees of the institute received wages, "in fact without doing any work." What exactly, according to investigators, scientists “did not do any work” and how it was evaluated, was not reported.

But Pivovarov was charged with an abduction of one and a half million rubles in ten years. Pivovarov was never particularly shy in the statement of his views and assessing the situation in Russia, although he did it in an academic, not a political vein. He gave frank interviews, was a confidant of Grigory Yavlinsky, and in February, along with politicians and public figures, he entered the anti -war committee of Russia.

All the last years, the Russian authorities made it clear that history is a political science. Academician of Pivovarov made his political choice. To continue to receive BBC news, subscribe to our channels:.