The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday March 15th, 2022 – World Consumer Rights Day
World Consumer Rights Day will be held around the globe to recognise our rights as consumers when it comes to financial services. The day is organised by Consumers International, a federation which acts as an independent voice for all of us consumers, wherever we are in the world.
Cutting Ties: The West, Ukraine, and the Russian Academy by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Working with Russian academics and institutions. The attack upon Ukraine by Russia. These are two features playing out heavily in university discussions. As typifies such chitchat, nuance features rather less than cant and sanctimony. As writer and lecturer Paolo Nori of Milano-Bicocca University stated after discovering that his course on Fyodor Dostoevsky would be cancelled in response to the war, “Not only is it a fault to be a living Russian in Italy today, but also to be a dead Russian.” (Dostoevsky has since been reprieved; the course will now run.)
Throughout history, academic cooperation between universities and academic institutions, despite the political differences of states, has taken place. Even at the height of the Cold War, exchanges across several intellectual fields were regular occurrences. The cynic could see these as culture wars in the service of propaganda, but work was still done, projects started and completed.
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“Mariupol” #poem & #photo by Nikos Laios
“O Mariupol,
You are utterly
Destroyed,
Erased from the earth,”
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Ephemera #045 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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