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July 7, 2006. Belarusian weekly newspaper “Nasha Niva” has taken an interview with Dr. Pavel Tereshkovich, head of EHU’s BA program “History and Culture of Belarus”. Read the article on the paper’s website (in Belarusian).
June 1, 2006. Helsingin Sanomat, the biggest daily subscription-based newspaper in Scandinavia and Finland’s leading national paper, has published an article about the existence and activity of the European Humanities University in Vilnius. A participant of the joint project of the European Commission and the Nordic Council of Ministers, Finland backs up the University’s efforts in achieving its mission in exile. Read the article in the language of the source here.
May 9, 2006. Representatives of leading international donor organizations and diplomatic corps gathered in Vilnius at the meeting of European Humanities University (EHU) International Board of Trustees and donors’ conference to discuss the strategy for the University’s further development. During this day, financial donors of EHU had meetings with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania; members of the Lithuanian Council of Ministers and Parliament; and EHU students. Also, this day the EHU International Support Committee was announced, comprised of 19 current and former university heads and other internationally prominent educators from Europe and North America. The Committee is intended as a vehicle for expressing the solidarity of the global higher education community with EHU and the cause of academic freedom in Belarus. Read the report of the Baltic News Service (in Russian) and press-release of the MacArthur Foundation.
May 3, 2006. “A Belarusian University in its Lithuanian Exile” is the title of the article about EHU by Juliette Rennes, a young researcher in France, Doctor of Political Science and one of the participants of the EHU Regional Seminar “Visual and Cultural Studies: subject, methods, and teaching strategies”. The story of our University is now available to over 35000 French-speaking readers that monthly visit the web site of “Espaces Temps”, a journal in Social Sciences. Read the full text of the article here (in French).
March 31, 2006. The Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly adopted a statement on academic freedom in Belarus. In the statement, the Council of Europe parliamentarians strongly condemned denial of academic freedom in Belarus. Furthermore, “the Committee welcomed the support that the international community and in particular Lithuania provided to the European Humanities University which had to go into exile from Minsk (Belarus) to Vilnius (Lithuania). It encouraged member governments as well as universities in Europe to co-operate with the European Humanities University and facilitate student and faculty exchanges.” Read the PACE press release.
March 23, 2006. The Baltic Sea magazine, a joint program of the German NDR 1 Welle Nord and Radio Sweden, reported about European Humanities University – a Belarusian university, which is forced to function outside its home country. Read the report “University in Exile” (in German, MS Word document).
March 11, 2006. From the very outset, EHU confronted “the stagnant, Sovietised teaching that lingered in Belarus” and “acquired a reputation as the most dynamic teaching institution in an increasingly closed country”. And today – in exile – EHU “is not a training camp for opponents of President Lukashenko, but an open environment in which young Belarusians can study outside the confines of their homeland” and thus obtain knowledge unfettered by ideology. Read reports about EHU “flourishing” in Vilnius, published by international mass media:
February 17, 2006. Mass media have covered widely the news about recent accreditation of European Humanities University in Lithuania. Read selected articles, published by national and international news agencies:
February 6, 2006. “I am happy that I am receiving a good, European education, which is not available in Belarus”. German National Radio reports on the functioning of European Humanities University in Vilnius, EHU Rector Anatoli Mikhailov and bachelor students are guest speakers. Read the article “University in Exile: Belarusians Study in Vilnius” (in German) and listen to the report via “audio on demand” on the radio studio’s web site.
January 25, 2006. “This generation of students is capable of initiating liberty to awake in Belarus… But, to conceive the challenges of our region, the students need to be in the space of freedom. It is their task to find solutions to those challenges, while our task is to assist them by providing with a comprehensive education in the Humanities.” EHU vice-rector Vladimir Dounaev tells the French reporter Jeanne Emmanuelle Hutin about reasons leading the European Humanities University into exile, about expectations of its Belarusian students and the complicated process of the University’s reestablishment. Read the article “An Appeal of the Belarusian University in Exile” (in French), published in issue 18652 of Ouest France.
January 17, 2006. Italian daily “Il Sole 24 Ore” has reported about the work of European Humanities University in Vilnius. Read the article “A University in Exile” (in Italian).
January 10, 2006. Swiss Neue Zurcher Zeitung examined academic, political and financial dimensions of EHU’s forced move to Lithuania. Please read the article “A Belarusian University in Exile” in the online version of the newspaper.
December 20, 2005. One of the broadcasts in the “Fellow Countrymen” series of Belarusian Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty tells about EHU students’ life in Vilnius. Read the interview, triggered by the students, on the RFE/RL web site.
December 19, 2005. In January 2006, the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) is launching a joint project with European Humanities University, supported by the European Commission under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights. The project will provide for implementation of most of the University’s academic programs at undergraduate and graduate levels in Vilnius in 2006-2008 and will benefit 170 bachelor’s and 180 master’s students from Belarus. Read the press release distributed by the Nordic Council of Ministers here.
December 17, 2005. The business trip of EHU Rector A. Mikhailov to France generated keen interest of many journalists in the history of our University and the situation in Belarus in general. On December 8, 2005 French La Croix published an article, telling about the EHU’s complicated destiny, its closure in Minsk and rebirth in Vilnius. This narration is continued in Le Figaro’s and Libération’s publications of December 12 and 17 accordingly. Read the articles’ full texts in French (La Croix, Le Figaro, Libération).
December 16, 2005. Irish Department for Foreign Affairs announced a grant of €20,000 to support the work of the European Humanities University International in Vilnius, Lithuania. The grant will be used to support the university's distance learning program for students in Belarus. Read the press release here.
December 12, 2005. The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) awarded the European Humanities University a grant of $50,000 to support the university’s efforts to rebuild as a university-in-exile in Vilnius. Read the SRF press release here.
November 30, 2005. After EHU was forced to stop activity and close its campus in August 2004, it started a new academic academic year in 2004 as a virtual university. Ryhor Miniankou, Dean of the EHU Department of Philosophy, tells a story about how EHU’s distance-learning programs have evolved, in the US-published newsletter “Sloan-C View: Perspectives in Quality Online Education”.
November 30, 2005. Eurasian Journal’s article “Intelligentsia in Exile” views the forced closure of EHU in the homeland and its rebirth abroad through the prism of the geopolitical situation in the region. Read the article’s full text (in German) on the journal’s web site.
November 25, 2005. EHU faculty and students participated in the meeting of Lithuanian students with Belarus’ democratic leader Alexander Milinkevich, reports Financial News Agency (AFN). The discussion touched upon such questions as relations between Belarus and European Union, work of independent mass media, and national and cultural situation in Belarus. During the meeting, Mr. Milinkevich expressed his gratitude to the Lithuanian government for supporting EHU and Belarusian Humanities Liceum, also banned from Belarus. Read the full text of the article on the agency’s web-site.
November 18, 2005. See the report on EHU celebrating the International Students’ Day on the website of the Belarusian studio of Radio Liberty/ Radio Free Europe (the narrative is here, the photo gallery is here).
October 24, 2005. The article “From the Baltic down to the Black Sea” in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (#247) discusses the issues of political relations between Lithuania, European Union and NATO. The article’s author analyses the situation around European Humanities University, which has been banished from Belarus and now continues its operations in Vilnius through the support of international donors.
October 18, 2005. German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs allocated Euro 50.000 support for European Humanities University in Vilnius. “By this, Federal Government accentuates its commitment to the projects in the sphere of humanities, civil society and education in and for Belarus. At the same time, it is an effectual assistance for an innovative educational project of Europe.” Read the news release of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in German) and the article by Charter’97 “Germany pledges aid to university banished from Belarus” (in English).
October 8, 2005. Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus was on an official visit to France on October 6-8, reported President’s press service. During the meeting of Presidents of France and Lithuania, Jacques Chirac urged Lithuania to take the leading role in the relations of European Union with Belarus and expressed gratitude to this country for supporting European Humanities University. Read the article “Jacques Chirac: Lithuania should get engaged in Belarus matters” (in Belarusian) at the Belarusian website of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty.
October 8, 2005. On the second day of the new academic year, a group of students from the 16 Campus Europae member universities visited EHU in Vilnius within the framework of the Tour d’Europe project. At the meeting with their Belarusian colleagues, the guests presented their universities and answered lots of questions from EHU students. Read an article by the students representing EHU during the tour around Europe at the website of EHU community “SehuN” (in Russian).
August 23, 2005. Olga Shestakova, reporter of the “Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus” Newspaper undertook a trip to Vilnius to receive first-hand information on how European Humanities University functions in Lithuania. To read the travel notes and the interview with EHU vice-rector Vladimir Dounaev, please refer to the newspaper’s web-site.
August 12, 2005. By continuing the operations of EHU in Vilnius, “we import the future in our present”. “Belarusian Business Newspaper” published an interview with Dr. Ryhor Miniankou, Dean of the EHU Philosophy Department. Read the article “The Second Coming: EHU Will Live in Vilnius” here and the accompanying reference note here.
August 9, 2005. A year ago, through the initiative of the Institute for German Studies and financial support of several German foundations, over 40 senior students of EHU received an opportunity to complete their bachelor’s education in Germany. Recently 38 of them defended their final projects and received degrees from European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder). Belarusian students thank the University on the pages of German newspaper “Markische Oderzeitung”. Belarusian studio of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty joins in the discussion of this topic in the article “38 EHU Students Have Received Diplomas from Viadrina”.
August 6, 2005. EHU Vice-Rector Dr. Vladimir Dounaev addressed “Narodnaya Volya” newspaper [People’s Will] with a request to publish answers to most frequently asked questions concerning admissions and study at the University. “Why not to respond to the call and give the newspaper’s pages for answering the questions which worry so many university entrants?” was the inquiry of Stepan Kukharchik in his article “Question/Answer” (in Russian). The journalist found an answer for his own question in the Belarus President’s Ordinance on Measures to Counteract Human Trafficking. As for the students’ questions, they are still answered only on the University’s website.
August 5, 2005. Reports from the venue of the Closed Universities’ Day action:
July 22, 2005. German Spiegel reports about the EHU students’ graduation from European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder). Read Julia Eikmann’s article “Belarusian Students in Exile: Study as a Political Act” here (in German).
June 29, 2005. The web site of the U.S. Department of State published the article by Jeffrey Thomas “Respected Belarusian University Reborn in Exile”, dedicated to the inauguration of EHU in Lithuania.
June 28, 2005. “Is it possible at the dawn of the 21st century that an entire university could be driven into exile in Europe?” This question is examined in the article “From exile, a beacon of hope for Belarus” by Dr. Jonathan F. Fanton, President of MacArthur Foundation, in International Herald Tribune.
June 17, 2005. "Belarusian Business Newspaper" published an article "EHU Veers Round and Vows to Remain for Long Haul" (in Russian) by Oksana Tushkina, dedicated to the inauguration of E.H.U. International and the project of EHU reopening in Vilnius.
June 15, 2005. Newspaper “Narodnaya volia” [People’s Will] featured its interview with Anatoli Mikhailov, published under the headline “The Return of EHU”.
June 15, 2005. The weekly Baltic Times published two articles about EHU: "Vilnius, Europe Resurrects Banished University", dedicated to EHU renewing its operations in Lithuania, and “Curriculum for a Tyrant”, examining the capabilities of European Union to have an influence on the future of Belarus.
June 13, 2005. The weekly "Belarusian Market" published an article "A Symbol of Hope", featuring the resumption of EHU's operations in Vilnius. Read the article (in Russian) here.
June 9, 2005. Articles in Belarusian Internet media about the inaugural conference of E.H.U. International:
June 9, 2005. Prof. Gesine Schwan, well-known scientific and public figure and President of European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder) greets opening of the European Humanities University in exile, which took place in Vilnius. After EHU was shut down in Minsk, Viadrina’s President was among the first in Germany to declare her readiness to transfer former EHU students to her University. Now 37 such students are getting ready for their final exams. Read full-text interview with Prof. Schwan on the web-site of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (in Belarusian).
May 13, 2005. The academic year is coming to its end, making many EHU students – and most of those who have spent the year in foreign universities – to decide for themselves what to do next. An article by German journalist Jan-Oliver Schuetz (Der Tagesspiegel) tells us about life plans and choices of two EHU students at Free University in Berlin. Read the article “Back to Minsk?” here (in German).
May 5, 2005. An informational action timed to the 19th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster took place in the University of Konstantz (Germany) on May 2-4, reported Internet mass media "Charter 97". Every day in the central hall of
the university a multi-media presentation was demonstrated. Besides, signatures were collected in support of the students of the European Humanities University and of the Yakub Kolas Lyceum, closed by the Belarusian regime for political reasons. Organizers of the action collected over 800 signatures of students and professors of the university against closure of educational institutions. Read the full-text article here.
April 21, 2005. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and Foreign Minister of Lithuania Antanas Valionis met in Vilnius with representatives of Belarus civil society. Among participants of the meeting was Prof. Anatoli Mikhailov, Rector of European Humanities University. Read articles, prepared by Charter'97; Yahoo! News; TurkishPress.
April 15, 2005. The European Humanities University will reopen in Vilnius on June 9, BNS reported. This decision was made during an informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg on April 15. Antanas Valionis, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, called for reopening the EHU to promote European values to the academic circles in neighboring Belarus. The Lithuanian government is looking for a suitable building to house the EHU. Read the BNS full-text press-release in Lithuanian and Russian.
April 6, 2005. Lithuania is ready to host the banned in Belarus independent European Humanities University, reported Baltic News Service with reference to the press service of the Lithuanian government. This position was announced during the meeting of Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas with EHU Rector Anatoly Mikhailov. Among details discussed during the meeting, there were the following: the university in Lithuania may be reopened with assistance from the European Union; the university will operate as an independent entity; and the university could restart its work in the coming year already. Read the BNS full-text press-release in Lithuanian and Russian.
March 10, 2005. The Internet resources http://www.charter97.org and http://www.tut.by have published an article, covering the decision to liquidate the European Humanities University, that has been taken by its founder - the Humanitarian-educational Foundation "Humanitas". The article quotes the chairperson of the EHU liquidation commission, Tatiana Galko saying: "the decision to liquidate the University is a compelled step in response to the actions on the part of the authorities who do not allow us to carry out our mission in Belarus in a legal way".
Read the full text of the article (in Russian) here.
February 25, 2005. The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an extensive article, entitled "Imposing an Ideology in Belarus", dedicated to the policy of the president Lukashenko, who, according to The Chronicle, "pushes universities to promote the state's views by rewriting textbooks, firing professors, and punishing students".
Read the full article here.
December 27, 2004.
"Belorusskaya gazeta" published an article by Viktor Martinovich, with a title paraphrasing one of the old Soviet songs:
"We will build our, build a new university". In this article the author contemplates on the "latent reforms" carried out by the Belarusian authorities, one of such reforms being a "total re-construction of the university system in 2004". The closure of EHU in July, 2004 can be called a 'symbol of Belarusian university system reform". You can read the full text of the article (in Russian) here. December 1, 2004. "Exam chiefs ordered to 'fail' dissident teachers" - is the title of an article by Vera Rich, one of Britain's leading authorities on Belarusian & Ukrainian cultural affairs and free expression, that was published by the online resource The Index on Censorship (www.indexonline.org). This reportage tells about one of the latest decrees of the President Lukashenko, introducing the practice of depriving the lecturers and teachers who engage in "behaviour incompatible with their professional activity" of their academic degrees (and thus their jobs, says Vera Rich).
The article also mentions the situation around the European Humanities University. Read the full article here. November 23, 2004. The information dedicated to the extension by the European Union of the list of personae non gratae among Belarusian officials and other sanctions against Belarus, published by the Belarusian portal TUT.BY, in particular, states:
"In their statement the ministers call upon the Belarusian authorities to continue the investigation of the case of disappeared people and "cease the pressure on political parties, independent mass media, NGOs and academic institutions". In particular, they call upon the authorities to restore the license of EHU, whose functioning has been discontinued in July 2004. Read the full text of the article (in Russian) here. November 16, 2004. The article of Yaroslav Romanchuk, published in "Belaruskaya gazeta" No. 45 [462] of 15.11.2004 will (for those who doubt the innocence of EHU and unlawfulness of its liquidation) possibly cast a new light on this story. It became known that "the State Control Committee (SCC) has thoroughly checked the EHU activities and… has acknowledged the absolute groundlessness of accusations of the late University in all financial and legal sins." The author comes to the conclusion that "The liquidation of EHU is the victory of the advocates of monopoly on the market of educational services. The EHU syndrome - lack of corporate and public solidarity - points directly at the lethal disease of Belarus - the persecution of creators and innovators". Read the full text of the article (in Russian) here.
November 15, 2004. The article of Olga Grinevitskaya, published in "Narodnaya volya" (the article is also available on the web-site http://www.charter97.org), analyses the situation around the building that was taken away from EHU in July 2004 by the Main economic department of the Presidential Administration under pretense of the need to accommodate the Committee of State Control for Minsk and Minsk region and the Ministry of Forestry. In the meanwhile "33 organizations, mostly private, have rented office space. One of the firms, that occupied the space on the ground floor, started a grand renovation - they make an autonomous office with a separate entrance". Read the full text of the article (in Russian) here.
November 4, 2004 г. "Nasha Niva" printed an interview with the EHU Rector, Professor Anatoli Mikhailov ("Professor Mikhailov: The Ministry of Sport may not appoint a world champion"), in which Professor shares about how the leadership of the University that has been closed by the Belarusian authorities plans to continue its mission.
Read the full text of the interview (in Belarussian language) here.
October 27, 2004. " Miss Puzdrova, 19, would have a been a second-year student at the European Humanities University, which since its creation in 1992 has been an outpost of liberal education in an increasingly illiberal place. It was, therefore, a threat to the new state ideology that Mr. Lukashenko is steadily building". In his article, that was published by such influential foreign mass media as New York Times and International Herald Tribune, Stiven Lee Myers analyses the non-stop process of limiting the freedom of speech and thought in Belarus, unequivocally characterizing the actions of Belarusian authorities: " Voices of Freedom Are Stilled by Europe's Last Dictator".
Read the version of the article, published by the New York Times here, and the version, published by the International Herald Tribune here. You can also read the Yevgeni Yeriomin's translation of the New York Times' version of the article here which was also published on the web-sites http://www.inosmi.ru and http://www.charter97.org. October 19, 2004. The Polish newspaper "Rzeczpospolita" published the article "Bialorusi nie wolno zostawic samej sobie", that is dedicated to the situation around EHU, based on the media conference at the time of visit the EHU Rector, Professor Mikhailov, to Warsaw and his meeting with the Vice-president of Warsaw. Read the full text of the article (in Polish) here, as well as the commentary to this article, that was published in the same issue of the newspaper, here.
October 18, 2004. In anticipation of a large media conference with participation of the EHU Rector, Professor Mikhailov, that has been planned for October 19 at its editorial office, the Polish newspaper "Rzeczpospolita" has published an article about Professor Mikhailov and the European Humanities University. Read the full text of the article (in Polish) here.
October 17, 2004. The Washington Post published the article "School of 'Partisans' Goes Underground in Belarus" by Peter Finn. The author of the article is describing the efforts of Belarusian authorities aimed at extirpating the dissidence and at introducing the state ideology into the Belarusian educational system, the brightest examples of which is the liquidation of the Kolas' National Humanities Lyceum and the European Humanities University. Read full text of the article here.
October 8, 2004. The Polish online newspaper Gazeta.pl published a story about EHU students who were forced to flee into exile because their alma mater was shut down by Belarusian authorities; as well as an interview with the EHU Rector, Professor Mikhailov, which he gave to the journalists at the time of his visit to the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt (Oder)). In this interview Professor Mikhailov, in particular, tells about the plans to rebuild the EHU as an "University in exile". Read the full text of the article "Studenci na wygnaniu" (in Polish) here and the full text of the article "Rozmowa z rektorem EHU" (in Polish) here.
September 28, 2004. The "Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta" runs a Sergei Ivanov's article titled "Their elite is of wrong standard", covering the latest confessions from the Belarusian authorities concerning the real reasons for shutting down the EHU:
"It appears that the officials from the Ministry of Education have been lying all this time, and the state-run mass media have been reinforcing and disseminating these lies. We can recall how they argued that EHU was shut down because it lacked teaching premises or because it did not serve dietary meals to the students, etc. We remember, too, that the officials based the liquidation of the Belarusian-language Lyceum on the need to renovate the building. But the main thing is that everybody would deny the ideological and political reasons for the liquidation of these educational institutions." Read full article (in Russian) here. September 28, 2004. President Lukashenko, talking to the students of the Brest region, directly pointed out that the decision to liquidate EHU had been made out of ideological and political reasons, and not by the Minister of Education but on the highest level. The Belarusian authorities decided that they cannot tolerate the single private university in the country, that would train "in the first place, the new Belarusian elite, that in the course of time would have to lead Belarus to the West". Read the full article (in Russian) here.
September 24, 2004. "Belorusskiye novosti" (Naviny.by) published an article by Sergei Pulsha, titled "EHU fell in the clash of civilizations?":
"…Belarusian President's speech before the students in Brest presented the picture of conflict around EHU in a different light. Even in a different dimension, if you please. It appeared that this extraordinary university, in the first place, had not fit into the civilization standards of the Belarusian society!" Read full article (in Russian) here. September 21, 2004. Vera Rich's article in the Radio Liberty's analytical report on Belarus and Ukraine reviews the latest events in the field of Belarusian higher education. Read it here.
September 17, 2004. The online news media EducationGuardian.co.uk has published an article on the situation around EHU. The article quotes the Rector of EHU, Professor Mikhailov, telling EducationGuardian.co.uk that "the closure of European Humanities University in Minsk… took place because its influence was considered harmful" for the educational system as well as for the country's President Alexandr Lukashenko, who, according to the observers, strives to gain even greater control over the former communist state". Read the full text of the article (in Russian) here.
September 17, 2004. An article from "Komsomolskaya Pravda" that was re-printed by TUT.BY:
"EHU was closed because of not providing dietary meals to its students. The students of the liquidated University were admitted to Belarusian State University only on September 13. EHU students are special kind of people. They have not succeeded in saving their alma mater, but apart from that they rigorously defend their rights..." Read the full article (in Russian here. September 16, 2004. The situation around EHU and the problems of Belarusian higher education are discussed in the article "Higher education: myths, problems and future" on the online resource "Our opinion". Read the article (in Russian) here.
September 14, 2004. The article "EHU students are forced to take academic leaves" was published on the web-site of the Belarusian service of the Radio Liberty:
"For the majority of the students of European Humanities University that had been liquidated by the authorities, the academic year never started. In some universities where the students were adviced to transfer by officials from the Ministry of Education, there appeared to be no matching academic disciplines; some students are accepted on the condition of taking an additional year of study. For these reasons the majority of EHU students took academic leaves or still unsuccessfully try to become the students of state universities". Read the full article (in Russian) here. September 3, 2004. BT (Belarusian TV channel 1) run a TV report on September 3 to illustrate the creation of an Institute of St. Kirill and Methodius in the framework of the Belarusian State University. This Institute was created on the basis of the Theological Faculty of EHU, and the TV report used the archived TV records of the events that had been carried out at EHU. At the same time, the creation of the Institute is praised as an outstanding achievement of the Belarusian State University, not giving any notice to the fact that it is in fact the Theological Faculty of EHU, that worked for over 10 years already. But the most interesting thing is that now the graduates of the new Theological Institute will receive the diplomas bearing the name of Vladimir Lenin. The TV report can be watched (in Russian) here.
August 31, 2004. "Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta" published an article ("EHU has found a Third Way") about the online-project of the graduates of EHU Master's Degree program in Political Science:
"Another socially-and-politically oriented resource - "Third Way" (http://www.3dway.org) joined the Belarusian segment of the Internet. The resource was created mainly by the graduates of EHU Master's Degree program in Political Science. The project proves that the planned liquidation of EHU has not succeeded..." Read the full article (in Russian) here. August 9 - 16, 2004. The article "Students defend their alma mater" was published by the "Belorusski Rynok" newspaper, issue No. 31(615):
"The opposition between the authorities and the European Humanities University last week became absolutely visible and tangible. The student protests stripped this process of any hint of argument over teaching process, and transferred it unequivocally into the political plane..." Read the full article (in Russian) here. August 9 - 16, 2004. The "Belorusski Rynok" newspaper published in the issue No.31(615) an interview with the Vice-rector of EHU Vladimir Dounaev under the title "University in exile - the Belarusian reality":
"Following the individuals who flee to the West as political refugees, a whole university is emigrating from Belarus. The leadership of the European Humanities University starts rebuilding its creation in the West as a "university in exile". The Vice-rector of EHU Vladimir Dounaev tells us about the present and the past of the University, the students and professors in his interview with BR"... Read the full article (in Russian) here. August 2 - 9, 2004. The "Belorusski Rynok" newspaper published the article titled "EHU will live" in the issue No.30(614):
"But not now and, probably, not here. Having taken the "incompatible with life" administrative blows, the European Humanities University have been forced to temporarily suspend its work in the licensed areas of activities in order to resurrect on the market of educational services in a new capacity after a while. On July 27 the Minister of Education, Alexandr Radzkov, has signed an order to revoke the EHU's licence for higher education..." Read the full article (in Russian) here. August 2, 2004. The "Belorusskaya Gazeta" newspaper published the article titled "Chopping down the "Academic palm" in the issue No.30 (447):
"The half-year long opposition of the Ministry of Education and EHU came to an end. There are victims - the students. The Minister of Education, Alexandr Radzkov, has been repeatedly demanding the resignation of the EHU Rector Anatoli Mikhailov, but the faculty and staff with an enviable steadiness have been wasting paper on numerous open letters. The European community is strongly condemning the authorities' actions against EHU for already half a year... Read the full article (in Russian) here. July 31, 2004. The article "Humanitarian issue" was published by the "Sovetskaya Belarus" newspaper in the issue No.143 (22053):
"Quite a loud thing happened on the past week. The Ministry of Education issued an order revoking the license for higher education services of the private educational institution "European Humanities University". Among the private universities the EHU was a special one not just because it had a unique Theological Faculty, supervised personally by the Metropolitan Filaret. Another original thing about it was that the financial "donors" of EHU were the governmental and non-governmental organizations of France, Germany, USA and other countries, and the leadership and faculty of the University had a unique opportunity to go abroad for long study trips... Read the full article (in Russian)here. The text of this article prompted the Rector of EHU Anatoli Mikhailov to write a response. Read it here.
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