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Oxford University criticised for accepting oligarch's £75m donation

Edit The Guardian 04 Nov 2015
Institution should ‘stop selling its reputation to Putin’s associates’ and rethink cash from Len Blavatnik, critics say. Oxford University has been urged to review its decision to accept £75m from Len Blavatnik, Britain’s richest man, to build the Blavatnik school of government ... Related ... The signatories include Pavel Litvinov, one of eight people who in 1968 protested on Red Square against Moscow’s invasion of Czechoslovakia ... ....

Oxford University must stop selling its reputation to Vladimir Putin’s associates

Edit The Guardian 03 Nov 2015
This autumn the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) is to move into a new, purpose-built home at Oxford University as a result of USSR-born oligarch Leonid Blavatnik’s £75m donation in 2010. Blavatnik has not been alone in seeking to collaborate with Oxford ... There was a backdrop of state-sponsored propaganda ... Pavel Stroilov Historian and writer ... Pavel Litvinov Soviet dissident leader, director of Andrei Sakharov Foundation ... ....

Oxford University accused of 'distasteful joke' over oligarch's £75m donation

Edit The Guardian 03 Nov 2015
Soviet dissidents and academics say institution should ‘stop selling its reputation’ and rethink cash from Len Blavatnik, Britain’s richest man ... “Oxford should stop selling its reputation and prestige to Putin’s associates,” it says. Related ... Letters ... It adds ... “I don’t think we are going to comment ... The signatories include Pavel Litvinov, one of eight people who in 1968 protested on Red Square against Moscow’s invasion of Czechoslovakia ... ....

Facebook’s block policy accused of facilitating pro-Kremlin trolls

Edit The Guardian 17 Jun 2015
Prominent bloggers claim their accounts are being routinely blocked after orchestrated complaints from Russia’s cyber army. RFE/RL report ... The petition asks Facebook to change its approach to blocking until ... Related. From Britain to Beijing ... Nearly 11,500 people have signed the petition, including opposition activist Aleksei Navalny, novelist Boris Akunin, poet Veronika Dolina, and longtime rights activist Pavel Litvinov ... Related ... ....

Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg review – sobering tale of Greenpeace’s Arctic 30

Edit The Guardian 29 Apr 2015
An interesting subplot in the story of the Arctic 30 underlines this, because one of the leading activists was Dima Litvinov, the son of the well-known Soviet dissident Pavel Litvinov (and great-grandson of Stalin’s first foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov). In 1968, when the Soviet Union sent tanks to Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, Pavel Litvinov and a small group of friends went out into Red Square to protest....
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