ARCA: New Website for the Global Russian-Speaking Academic Community

With the help of RASA intern Alexei Epishev (UIC), RASA has launched the community website ARCA, which stands for Academic Russian-Speaking Community Abroad. This is an online platform designed to facilitate communication among scholars in Eastern European diasporas despite their differences in disciplines, waves of emigration, generations, and geographic locations (DEGG: Disciplines, Emigration Waves, Generations, Geographies).

ARCA is intended to support the development of Russian-language interdisciplinary scientific discourse, cooperation among diaspora groups, protection of academic freedoms, and defense of the reputation of science. In today’s uneasy geopolitical environment, we must strive to create additional spaces of solidarity for people of goodwill.

RASA invites various academic groups to join the platform. Each group will have its own space on the site, and news about its scholarly and public activities will also be posted there.