Ongoing crackdown on dissent in Russia threaten to plunge the Russian social sciences and humanities into a new era of isolation and wipe out over three decades of internationalization and transnational exchange. We have the duty not only to support our Russian colleagues and institutions in exile, but also to help build the capacity for younger generations of Russian students to be taught in a pluralistic environment, and to prepare for the time when Russia will reopen, in one form or another.

To answer these challenges, the Russian Global Academy helps the Russian academic diaspora to self-organize and maintain a degree of solidarity and cohesion. We aim at preserving Russian scholarly communities and fields by emphasizing digital professional communities and offering flexible solutions in a transition period of translation.
A DC consortium of three universities (GWU, Georgetown, and American University), the Academy delivers short-term non-residential fellowships to Russian scholars in exile, provides support for conference travel, and assists in editing and publishing scholarly work.