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performance, would comment: “I don’t believe!” A.V. Mogilev, “Effektivnost’—eto vam ne igrushka—i nam tozhe,” Jan. 27, 2014, http://unisolidarity.ru/?p=1756 (consulted June 5, 2017)

37 “Livanov o zarplatakh prepodov,” http://phdru.com/paycheck/livanovsalary/; “Ministr obrazovaniya otsenil uroven’ prepodavatelei po ikh zarplatam,” https://www.ntv.ru/novosti/369807/ (accessed June 15, 2018)

38 “Dmitiri Livanov i vuzy: optimitizatsiya vmesto obrazovaniya,” Kapital strany, May 15, 2013. http://kapital-rus.ru/articles/article/dmitrij_livanov_i_vuzy_optimizaciya_vmesto_obrazovaniya/ (accessed June 15, 2018)

39 D. Platonova and D. Semyonov, “Russia: the Institutional Landscape of Russian Higher Education,” in J. Huisman et al., eds., 25 years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries, Palgrave, 2018 p. 355.

40 For a critical assessment of Rosobrnadozor’s academic experts, see K. Guba, et al., “Kak rabotaet Rosobrnadzor,” Troïtskii variant, July 3, 2018, p. 4. https://trv-science.ru/2018/07/03/kak-rabotaet-rosobrnadzor/ (accessed June 15, 2018) On Rosobrnadzor’s controversial and, at least partly politically motivated, cancelling of the accreditation of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (“Shaninka») and of the European University, see “Eto bor’ba ne za “Shaninku, a za peresmostr polnomochii Rosobrnadzora”, Vesti obsrazovaniya, June 29, 2018; https://vogazeta.ru/articles/2018/6/29/quality_of_education/3801-vshe_vstupilas_za_shaninku (accessed June 15, 2018) and “Pochemu attaka na Evropeiskii universitet v Peterburge—katastrofa dlya rossiiskoi nauki i obrazovaniya,” Meduza, Sept. 29, 2017. https://meduza.io/feature/2017/09/29/pochemu-ataka-na-evropeyskiy-universitet-v-peterburge-katastrofa-dlya-rossiyskoy-nauki-i-obrazovaniya (accessed June 15, 2018)

41 See, for example, M. Gladwell, “The Order of Things: What College Rankings Really Tell Us,” The New Yorker, Feb. 14 and 21, 2011.

42 A. Chernykh, “Pochemu vedushchie vuzy perevodyat na vneshnee upravlenie,” Kommersant, July 1, 2014, p. 5.

43 Zh. Toschchenko, “K chemu vedet neskonchaemaya optimizatisya obrazovaniya,” Nepavisimaya gazeta, Jan. 1, 2020. http://www.ng.ru/stsenarii/2020-01-27/9_7778_education.html? (consulted Jan 14, 2020)