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Professor of Politics @DCU Post-Soviet Politics / Irish Studies / Unrecognised States PSAI Book of the Year: https://t.co/ckGCz3rrq3
Apr 18, 2021 13 tweets 10 min read
This is a remarkable attempt to undermine academic freedom in #Ireland and on the flimsiest of pretexts

Attempts by emissaries of #Georgia and #Ukraine to dictate how we teach/research @DCU have been and will continually to be firmly rebuffed

rte.ie/radio1/this-we… In response to @rtenews the Ukrainian embassy dismiss suggestions they tried to attack academic freedom as "emotional" and "groundless"

So let me post some extracts from the letter sent to DCU and Department of Foreign Affairs

Judge for yourself

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