Ararat Osipian with Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus, May 2007
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Corporate raiding and predatory state in Russia: Yukos, O1 Group, Cherkizon
Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington, DC, October 2025
This study considers three big cases of the state-led corporate predatory raiding in Russia, including Yukos, O1 Group, and Cherkizovsky market in Moscow. These cases represent oil & gas, finance, real estate, and wholesale and retail sectors of the Russian economy. Business competition can turn a given company into a target for mergers & acquisitions done by predatory raiders. Political reasons can also be considered as a reason for predatory raiding in Russia. However, in deeply authoritarian ruling political regimes, political competition is either very weak or even non-existent by definition. Thus, it is highly unlikely that any major corporation in Russia would fall prey to state-supported predatory raiders due to some alleged political ambitions of the company’s leader. Economic reasons dominate in corporate predatory raiding. In some instances, attacks of predatory raiders on large corporations in Russia are supported by the elements of the state apparatus. The mechanisms used in state-supported raiding attacks on large corporations in Russia vary. Allegations of major tax evasion, financial fraud, staged bankruptcy, and licensing violations are classical mechanisms in such cases of attempted hostile takeovers. Another formal reason to halt business activities is to discover minor violations in numerous codes and regulations, set by the state. Corrupt state bureaucrats can use minor violations in order to suspend the license of the targeted company or to interfere with its business activities. Big cases of corporate predatory raiding in Russia are both informative and demonstrative, signifying the battle between big businesses and the predatory state.
Then there is the corruption. A 2015 USAID report found that Ukrainian universities were “rife” with it, and that perception is endorsed by Ararat Osipian, an economist who specialises in academic corruption. “There was outright bribery and fake degrees; you could purchase your master’s thesis or your PhD dissertation,” explains Osipian, who is a fellow of the New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest but, under martial law, is unable to leave Ukraine and, having been displaced from the eastern city of Kramatorsk, now lives in a temporary shelter further west – “a refugee in my own country”. But academic corruption is no surprise in a country that ranked 104th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranks countries on their transparency. “If everything around is corrupt, then higher education is also corrupt. It’s not an oasis,” Osipian says. In 2021, the World Bank announced a $200 million investment to “support the Government of Ukraine’s efforts to strengthen efficiency, quality and transparency of the country’s higher education system”. The project will run until the end of 2026, but, Osipian points out, almost $100 million was redirected from the budget to cover academic and social scholarships for students after the outbreak of war. With half its funding gone, he is doubtful that the project will succeed. Times Higher Education https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/it-time-ukraines-exiled-academics-return
Ukraine needs to increase academic mobility, the backbone of educational internationalization, but it is severely restricted due to the war. As a result, Ukraine risks transforming into one of those post-Stalinist dystopias that are hard to get to; once you are in, it is hard to get out. Despite much discussion about sanctions and restrictions, Russia’s academic ties continue to expand, while Ukraine’s academic ties become severed. Voices of Ukrainian Scholars featuring Ararat L. Osipian. The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies https://www.aseees.org/membership/ararat-osipian
Ironically enough, just a few hours prior to the publication of the order in the media, I sent a draft of my book to my publisher with a dedication to the National Research University Higher School of Economics for its “daring aspiration to compete with world-class universities and to become one”. My book has nothing to do with politics, but has suddenly become the subject of potential political indoctrination. University World News https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220620142920488
Ararat L Osipian reports on “Trump University: Crime and Settlement”, alluding to the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel. There, 6,000 former students agreed to a settlement of US$25 million. These victims of an alleged scam only recovered half of their money, leading to United States President Donald Trump’s satisfied Tweet: “I settled the Trump University lawsuit for a small fraction of the potential award because as President I have to focus on our country” (19 November 2016). Osipian goes on to record the University of Phoenix settlement of US$78.5 million in a suit filed by two former administrative officers acting as whistle-blowers. This followed upon Phoenix obtaining a revenue of US$2.5 billion from the reported embezzlement of federal Pell grants, a subsidy given by the US government to students who need support to pay for college. The University of Phoenix has been the largest recipient. University World News https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200624090044569
Nigeria’s education sector is particularly vulnerable to corruption. As corruption scholar Ararat Osipian noted in 2013, “[l]imited access to education [in Nigeria] has no doubt contributed to the use of bribes and personal connections to gain coveted places at universities, with some admissions officials reportedly working with agents to obtain bribes from students. Those who have no ability or willingness to resort to corruption face lost opportunities and unemployment." WENR World Education News and Reviewshttps://wenr.wes.org/2017/03/education-in-nigeria
There is no other way but to succeed in the fight against corruption, Ararat Osipian warned in a recent paper, "Education Corruption, Reform, and Growth: Case of Post-Soviet Russia." Saying that students today learn not only their subject matter, "but also pervasive ways and practices of corruption." The Washington Post http://russianow.washingtonpost.com/2010/08/the-cost-of-a-russian-education.php
“Your friends can buy you a doctoral degree for your birthday,” quipped Ararat L. Osipian, a scholar based in Ukraine who focused on academic corruption in the former Soviet Union for his doctorate from Vanderbilt University. Good friends, that is: The going rate for a fake degree online starts at around $1,400. The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/world/europe/russia-plagiarism-among-officials.html?emc=eta1
Students who get degrees through bribery or nepotism can likely land a job with a government agency or company in their country. That’s the case in Ukraine, says Ararat Osipian, a U.S.-trained Ukrainian economist who studies educational corruption there. “We have public servants who cannot manage simple paperwork,” he says. Bright but less affluent young people often end up in menial jobs, Osipian says. “It’s a terrible waste of human capital.” Bloomberg Businessweek http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/buying-a-diploma-is-easy-if-you-can-pay-up
O acadêmico Ararat Osipian advertiu num documento recente que “a corrupção na educação corrói a coesão social, porque os estudantes não aprendem só suas matérias, mas também meios escusos e práticas de corrupção”. Gazeta RUSSA (Brazil) http://gazetarussa.com.br/articles/2010/09/13/ao_mestre_um_dinheirinho_12007.html
169 companies offer custom-written doctoral dissertations for sale in Russia at prices ranging from the equivalent of $900 to $25,000, according to research by Ararat L. Osipian of Vanderbilt University. By one estimate, some 10,000 dissertations are written for pay each year in Russia, nearly one-third of the dissertations defended there. Advanced degrees are popular among Russian politicians. More than half of the members of the State Duma, Russia's main legislative body, hold doctoral degrees, Osipian reports. The Daily Stat. Harvard Business Review http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php?date=011113
In the United Kingdom, and other countries with a private education sector, using corruptly obtained funds to pay the fees of family members at private schools or universities can be a form of money laundering, according to Ararat Osipian, a PhD candidate at the Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University in the United States. University World News http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20131004142900721
It's hardly news that the Russian system of academic qualification is corrupt. In 2009, Ararat Osipian, of Vanderbilt University, cited prices for fake theses, from $1,000 to $6,100 for a "full package." "Rent-seeking behavior in the Russian society is perceived as a norm," he wrote. "Public officials, bureaucrats, and civil servants attempt to transform their access to material and non-material assets into personal benefits. Educators act in a similar manner. Rectors of state higher education institutions rent out public property, including academic and non-academic facilities and land, to businesses in which they often have a share. University professors sell doctorates by abusing their monopolized function of conferring doctoral degrees."As for politicians, Osipian wrote, they can reduce the high transaction costs of defending a thesis "by exercising their influence over academics in 'friendly' dissertation boards." Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-russia-plagiarism-comment-b2e13c80-a5b3-11e5-8318-bd8caed8c588-20151218-story.html Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/buying-a-diploma-is-easy-if-you-can-pay-up
According to Ararat Osipian, who completed a Ph.D. on academic corruption at Vanderbilt University and is now doing field work on the subject in Ukraine, between 20 percent and 30 percent of all dissertations that have been completed at Russian universities since the fall of the Soviet Union were purchased on the black market. Over the past 25 years many of these boards have become corrupt, with faculty members and academic advisers taking bribes in exchange for rubber-stamping obviously shoddy, or stolen, work, according to Osipian, who is not a member of Dissernet. “Everyone wants to get his cut,” he said. “You bought a dissertation, fine, but you still have to pay the people on the board to let this dissertation go through. At these universities, everyone needs money—they are all overworked and underpaid.” Slate http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/05 the_thriving_russian_black_market_in_dissertations_and_the_crusaders_fighting.html Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-elites-are-buying-black-market-dissertations-2016-5
In 2009, Ukrainian economist Dr. Ararat Osipian, reported that more than 30 percent of Ukrainian students enter colleges by paying bribes while many other students use their connections with faculty or administration stating that, “corruption increases inequalities in access to higher education, prevents future economic growth in the country, and undermines quality and credentials of academic degrees.” BORGEN Magazine http://www.borgenmagazine.com/education-ukraine-struggling-legitimacy/
Non è una novità che il sistema russo dei titoli di studio sia una tipografia sui generis. Nel 2009, Ararat Osipian, della Vanderbilt University, ha citato i prezzi delle tesi false: si parte da 1.000 dollari fino 6.100 per un “pacchetto completo”. Nella società russa “l’affitto”, è percepito come una norma. I funzionari pubblici e i burocrati cercano di trasformare i beni immateriali in vantaggi personali: i rettori degli istituti d’istruzione superiore affittano alle imprese beni pubblici, tra cui le strutture e i terreni accademici; i professori universitari “cedono” i dottorati; gli educatori vogliono “riconoscenza per orientare”. L'intraprendentehttp://www.lintraprendente.it/2016/01/la-russia-repubblica-fondata-sul-plagio/
Đó là bình luận của giáo sư Ararat Osipian - giảng viên tại Trung tâm Tội phạm khủng bố, tham nhũng xuyên quốc gia, Đại học George Mason, người đã dành thời gian từ tháng 6/2017 để thực hiện nghiên cứu thực địa về tham nhũng trong giáo dục đại học ở Moldova. Cũng như các phân khúc khác của khu vực công, giáo dục đại học ở Moldova không hoàn toàn trong sạch. Các cuộc trò chuyện về tham nhũng giáo dục đại học của giáo sư Ararat Osipian với các sinh viên, cựu sinh viên, phụ huynh và các công dân khác đã mang lại một số kết quả. Thanh Tra Vietnam http://thanhtra.com.vn/quoc-te/co-hay-khong-tham-nhung-o-cac-truong-dai-hoc-moldova_t114c26n154082
“Universities think [English] is our future, but is it really? Twenty-five years ago the same people were telling students that communism was unavoidable,” writes Ararat Osipian, associate professor of economics at Ukraine’s prestigious Bukovyna State University of Finance and Economics, and contributor to University World News. “Making unrealistic promises may be the safe option because in corrupt societies ruling regimes are not accountable to the public and thus carry no responsibility for their failures.” SI News: Independent News for International Students https://www.studyinternational.com/news/will-english-become-the-second-working-language-at-universities-in-indonesia-and-ukraine
Work in progress:
World Bank Comes to Ukraine: University Mergers, Protests, Corruption, War. Book manuscript.
Passion and love and sex and money: Sexual harassment, gender violence and corruption in universities. Book manuscript.
Books:
Osipian, Ararat. (2026). Asset appreciation and predatory raiding in Russia: Changing value, changing hands. New York and London: Routledge.
Osipian, Ararat. (2023). Sustainable Economic Growth in Russia: A Structuralist Approach. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Osipian, Ararat. (2023). The Economics of Growth in Russia: Overcoming the Poverty Trap. New York and London: Routledge.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). Political and Economic Transition in Russia: Predatory Raiding, Privatization Reforms and Property Rights. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). The Political Economy of Corporate Raiding in Russia. New York and London: Routledge.
Osipian, Ararat. (2009). The Impact of Human Capital on Economic Growth: A Case Study in Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1989-2009. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles:
Osipian, Ararat. (2025). How Does the USA Compare to Russia in Higher Education Corruption? A Mixed Methods Approach. Research in Comparative and International Education, SAGE 1.4, 20(4), pp. .
Osipian, Ararat. (2021). Let Me Write a Dissertation for You: The micro-level cost-benefit approach to doctoral degree fraud. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Routledge 1.817, 51(4), pp. 475-494.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). University Autonomy in Ukraine: Higher Education Corruption and the State. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Elsevier 1.351, 50(3), pp. 233-243.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Protesting Putin or Protecting Rights? Media Reflections on Reflective Student Activism. Contemporary Politics, Routledge 1.578, 22(2), pp. 215-231.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Transforming University Governance in Ukraine: Collegiums, Bureaucracies, and Political Institutions. Higher Education Policy, UNESCO, Palgrave Macmillan 2.629, 27(1), pp. 65-84.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Will Bribery and Fraud Converge? Comparative Corruption in Higher Education in Russia and the USA. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Routledge 1.817, 44(2), pp. 252-273.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Corrupt Organizations: Modeling Educators’ Misconduct with Cellular Automata. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer 2.023, 19(1), pp. 1-24.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Economics of Corruption in Doctoral Education: The Dissertations Market. Economics of Education Review, Elsevier 2.238, 31(1), pp. 76-83.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Who is Guilty and What to Do? Popular Opinion and Public Discourse of Corruption in Russian Higher Education. Canadian and International Education Journal, CIES Canada, 41(1), pp. 81-95.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Predatory Raiding in Russia: Institutions and Property Rights after the Crisis. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.701, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 46(2), pp. 469-479.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Grey Areas in the Higher Education Sector: Legality versus Corruptibility. Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal, 1(1), pp. 140-190.
Osipian, Ararat, & Osipian, Alexandr. (2012). Regional Diversity and Divided Memories in Ukraine: Contested Past as Electoral Resource, 2004-2010. East European Politics and Societies, SAGE 1.430, 26(3), pp. 616-642.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Loyalty as Rent: Corruption and Politicization of Russian Universities. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Emerald, 32(3/4), pp. 153-167.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Education Corruption, Reform, and Growth: Case of Post-Soviet Russia. Journal of Eurasian Studies, Elsevier, 3(1), pp. 20-29.
Osipian, Ararat. (2010). Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Political Corruption of Russian Doctorates. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Heldref, 18(3), pp. 260-280.
Osipian, Ararat. (2010). Corruption in the Politicized University: Lessons for Ukraine’s 2010 Presidential Elections. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Routledge 1.867, 23(2), pp. 101-114.
Osipian, Ararat. (2010). Corrupt Organizational Hierarchies in the Former Soviet Bloc. Transition Studies Review, Springer, 17(4), pp. 822-836.
Osipian, Ararat. (2009). “Feed from the Service”: Corruption and Coercion in the State—University Relations in Central Eurasia. Research in Comparative and International Education, SAGE, 4(2), pp. 182-203.
Osipian, Ararat. (2009). Vouchers, Tests, Loans, Privatization: Will They Help Tackle Corruption in Russian Higher Education? Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, Springer, 39(1), pp. 47-67.
Osipian, Ararat. (2009). Investigating Corruption in American Higher Education: The Methodology. FedUni Journal of Higher Education, ICFAI, India, 4(2), pp. 49-81.
Osipian, Ararat. (2009). Corruption and Reform in Higher Education in Ukraine. Canadian and International Education Journal, CIES Canada, 38(2), pp. 104-122.
Osipian, Ararat. (2009). Corruption Hierarchies in Higher Education in the Former Soviet Bloc. International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier 1.740, 29(3), pp. 321-330.
Osipian, Ararat. (2008). Political Graft and Education Corruption in Ukraine: Compliance, Collusion, and Control. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Heldref, 16(4), pp. 323-344.
Osipian, Ararat. (2008). Corruption in Higher Education: Does it Differ Across the Nations and Why? Research in Comparative and International Education, SAGE, 3(4), pp. 345-365.
Osipian, Ararat. (2008). Corruption and Coercion: University Autonomy versus State Control. European Education: Issues and Studies, Routledge, 40(3), pp. 27-48.
Osipian, Ararat. (2007). Corruption in Higher Education: Conceptual Approaches and Measurement Techniques. Research in Comparative and International Education, SAGE, 2(4), pp. 313-332.
Osipian, Ararat, & Osipian, Alexandr. (2006). Why Donbass Votes for Yanukovych: Confronting the Ukrainian Orange Revolution. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Heldref, 14(4), pp. 495-519.
Osipian, Ararat. (2003). Reforming Governance in Higher Education: Experience of the UK. European Dialog, 2, pp. 34-46.
Osipian, Ararat. (2003). Reforming Governance in Higher Education: Experience of the UK. European Dialog, 1, pp. 36-51.
Book chapters:
Osipian, Ararat. (2025). World Bank Comes to Ukraine: Improving Higher Education for Results. In Andrei Plesu, Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Anca Oroveanu, Katharina Biegger, Constantin Ardeleanu, and Andeea Esanu (Eds.). New Europe College Yearbook 2023-2024, vol. 3 (pp. 97-123). Bucharest: NEC Publishing.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Reflecting on Corruption in American and Russian Higher Education: The Use of Media Accounts. In Alexander Wiseman (Ed.). Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2019, vol. 36 (pp. 335-351). Bingley: Emerald.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). How Corruption Destroys Higher Education in Ukraine. In Andrei Plesu, Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Anca Oroveanu, and Irina Vainovski-Mihai (Eds.). New Europe College Yearbook (pp. 278-310). Bucharest: NEC Publishing.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Global and Local: Standardized Testing and Corruption in Admissions to Ukrainian Universities. In Carolyn A. Brown (Ed.). Globalisation, International Education Policy, and Local Policy Formation (pp. 215-234). New York: Springer, 254 p.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Recruitment and Admissions: Fostering Transparency on the Path to Higher Education. In Transparency International: Global Corruption Report: Education (pp. 148-155). New York: Routledge, 536 p.
Essays:
Osipian, Ararat. (2025). India, Nigeria, Ukraine: War puts international medical students in a stalemate. World Voices Nexus, Forthcoming.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Nepotism in American Universities Starts Resembling Ukraine. In Elena Denisova-Schmidt (Ed). Corruption in Higher Education: Global Challenges and Responses (pp. 65-69). CIHE series “Global Perspectives on Higher Education.” Rotterdam and Boston: Brill / Sense.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Trump University: Crime and Settlement. In Elena Denisova-Schmidt (Ed). Corruption in Higher Education: Global Challenges and Responses (pp. 88-95). CIHE series “Global Perspectives on Higher Education.” Rotterdam and Boston: Brill / Sense.
Other publications:
Osipian, Ararat. (2025). One would-be Romanian president is a plagiarist. But will voters care? Times Higher Education, February 28, 2025.
Osipian, Ararat. (2023). Most Unusual Requests: Transgender, Jewish students targeted in the US, Ukraine. Rights Views Columbia University, May 17, 2023.
Osipian, Ararat. (2023). Wagnerites turn international students into cannon fodder. NYU Jordan Russia Center Blog, May 17, 2023.
Osipian, Ararat. (2023). University autonomy is the key to tackling academic corruption. Times Higher Education, April 22, 2023.
Osipian, Ararat. (2023). Will Ukrainian internationalisation be another victim of the war? Times Higher Education, February 27, 2023.
Osipian, Ararat. (2023). What’s in a name: a perspective on Eurasia SIG. CIES Perspectives: Comparative and International Education Society Newsletter, February 15, 2023, pp. 47-48.
Osipian, Ararat. (2022). Why are Russian universities pushing African students to fight in Ukraine? Times Higher Education, December 12, 2022.
Osipian, Ararat. (2022). The war must prompt Ukrainian academia to clean up its act. Times Higher Education, September 12, 2022.
Osipian, Ararat. (2022). Ukraine’s ‘sanctioning frenzy’ will bring no HE benefits. University World News, June 20, 2022.
Osipian, Ararat. (2022). Mass-sanctioning Russia will not solve Ukrainian academia’s problems. Times Higher Education, June 17, 2022.
Osipian, Ararat. (2022). The World Bank’s approach to universities needs a rethink. University World News, April 30, 2022.
Osipian, Ararat. (2022). Is the World Bank’s intervention in Ukrainian HE too little too late? Times Higher Education, March 9, 2022.
Osipian, Ararat. (2021). Why world-class status is still mostly out of reach. University World News, April 24, 2021.
Osipian, Ararat. (2021). To buy or not to buy: Investing in a dissertation in Ukraine. International Higher Education, January 8, 2021, 105, pp. 31-33. Re-printed in Russian edition, Spanish edition, Vietnamese edition.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Generation 0-100: Russian Universities Fail to Offer World Class Education. The National Interest, October 29, 2020. Re-printed in Inosmi.ru. Madan.org.il.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Russia fails to achieve international excellence target. University World News, October 24, 2020.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Jews and conspiracy theories: Antisemitism enters academia in Ukraine. New Eastern Europe, October 16, 2020.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Sexual harassment and conservative traditionalism in universities. New Eastern Europe, July 6, 2020.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Students suffer sexual harassment in Kazakhstan. New Eastern Europe, March 9, 2020.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in Ukrainian HE. University World News, February 29, 2020.
Osipian, Ararat. (2020). Choosing between classes and fire safety in Ukraine. New Eastern Europe, January 23, 2020.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). The Lost World of Moldova: Corruption and Human Rights. Rights Views Columbia University, October 21, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). Sexual Harassment in Kyrgyzstan: Should UNESCO Weigh In? Inside Higher Education, The World View, October 9, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). Sexual harassment in Ukrainian universities must be tackled. Times Higher Education, September 16, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). Is There Corruption in Moldova’s Universities? Inside Higher Education, The World View, September 15, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). The links between sexual harassment and corruption. University World News, September 14, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). Ukraine hosts 46 firms selling ghost-written dissertations. Inside Higher Education, The World View, August 5, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). Vanity Fair: doctoral dissertations on sale in Ukraine. New Eastern Europe, July 31, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). The rise and rise of ghost-written dissertations. University World News, July 27, 2019
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). Putin’s plagiarism, fake Ukrainian degrees and other tales of world leaders accused of academic fraud. The Conversation, April 5, 2019. Re-printed in Associated Press, Channel News Asia, International Policy Digest, Alter Net, Scroll.in, Salon, Public Radio International.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). Should plagiarism be a bar to presidency? Times Higher Education, January 31, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2019). As Ukraine readies itself for Presidential Elections, time to read the dissertations of the candidates. New Eastern Europe, January 11, 2019.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Ukraine’s Borys Paton, National Academy of Sciences turn 100. New Eastern Europe, November 27, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Kazakhstan’s Struggle to Modernize. Inside Higher Education, The World View, November 26, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Russia’s Rankings Aspiration and Moscow State. Inside Higher Education, The World View, October 16, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Why Putin’s 5-100 project is doomed to fail. University World News, October 5, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Corruption in Ukraine’s medical universities. Inside Higher Education, The World View, July 30, 2018. Re-printed in Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). University’s anti-corruption expert charged with fraud. University World News, July 20, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). US physician fights Ukraine’s medical academic mafia. University World News, May 4, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Nepotism in the U.S.: Starting to Resemble Ukraine. Inside Higher Education, The World View, April 29, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). The Last Pharaoh of Ukraine’s Science. Inside Higher Education, The World View, February 17, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Euromaidan is unlikely to prompt any marriage of teaching and research in Ukraine. Times Higher Education, February 8, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Students under pressure as Putin runs for re-election. University World News, February 2, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). The Language of Discord: Ukrainian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian. New Eastern Europe, January 29, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Unpaid bills force universities to close until spring. University World News, January 27, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Russian students will not be manning the anti-Putin barricades. Times Higher Education, January 16, 2018.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). Russian Cows Benefit from Acupuncture. Inside Higher Education, The World View, December 17, 2017.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). Ukraine needs $3 billion and a culture change. Inside Higher Education, The World View, August 6, 2017.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). Ukrainian Politicians and Fake Dissertations. Inside Higher Education, The World View, May 30, 2017.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). Can autocracies cope with international universities? University World News, April 7, 2017.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). The Attack on Independent Universities. Inside Higher Education, The World View, April 2, 2017.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). Let Me Write a Dissertation for You: Fake PhDs Multiply. CIES Perspectives: Comparative and International Education Society Newsletter, February 10, 2017, p. 27.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). Bribes Found in Ukraine’s Criminal Code, Literally. Inside Higher Education, The World View, February 5, 2017.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). New York is taking a lead in tackling university fraud. University World News, January 28, 2017.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Trump University and the growth of fraud in HE. University World News, November 25, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Of University Rectors, Bribes and Electronic Monitoring Bracelets. Inside Higher Education, The World View, October 9, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Where corruption among university leaders is rife. University World News, September 9, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Higher Education Corruption and Reputational Damage. Inside Higher Education, The World View, July 10, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Ukraine’s Higher Education in Crisis: A report from the frontline. CIES Perspectives: Comparative and International Education Society Newsletter, May 26, 2016. p. 43.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). If California were to act like Ukraine: higher education budget constraints and privatization. 21st Century Scholar, May 25, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Ukraine’s Schools: Still alive, but not well. May 5, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Corruption scandal in the Far East. University World News, April 22, 2016, Issue No: 410.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Missteps on the Steppe: Nazarbayev University. In: Can a young university be a world-leading university? By Jack Grove. Times Higher Education, March 31, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). “Bilingual” Universities: Is this English or is this fraud? 21st Century Scholar, March 29, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Ukraine. In: Europe’s 200 best universities: who is at the top in 2016? by Ellie Bothwell. Times Higher Education, March 10, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Institutionalized separation of research and teaching in Ukraine. Inside Higher Education, The World View, March 7, 2016.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Is English the new Latin?University World News, February 14, 2016, Issue No: 400.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Corruption, extortion, hybrid war – Welcome to Ukraine. University World News, December 11, 2015, Issue No: 394.
Osipian, Ararat. (2007). Higher Education Corruption in Ukraine: Opinions and Estimates. International Higher Education, 49, pp. 20-21.
Book reviews:
Osipian, Ararat. (2022). Book review of Huss, Oksana. (2020). How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes. Strategies of Political Domination Under Ukraine’s Presidents in 1994–2014. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. Slavic Review, Cambridge University Press 0.343, 81(3), pp. 794-795.
Osipian, Ararat. (2021). Book review of Huisman, Jeroen, Smolentseva, Anna, and Froumin, Isak (Eds.). (2018). 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries: Reform and Continuity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Routledge 1.765, 51(3), pp. 471-472.
Osipian, Ararat. (2018). Book review of Zaloznaya, Marina. (2017). The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press. Europe-Asia Studies, Routledge 0.842, 70(2), pp. 309-310.
Osipian, Ararat. (2017). Book review of Søreide, Tina and Williams, Aled (eds). (2014). Corruption, Grabbing and Development: Real World Challenges. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. Democratization, Routledge 2.500, 24(1), pp. 185-186.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Book review of Mutter, John. (2015). Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, SAGE 0.739, 45(6), pp. 773-774.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Book review of Obydenkova, Anastassia and Libman, Alexander (eds). (2015). Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Farnham & Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Political Studies Review, SAGE 0.591, 14(4), pp. 621-621.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Book review of Onuch, Olga. (2014). Mapping Mass Mobilization. Understanding Revolutionary Moments in Argentina and Ukraine. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Europe-Asia Studies, Routledge 0.671, 68(5), pp. 946-947.
Osipian, Ararat. (2016). Book review of Yudkevich, Maria, Altbach, Philip, and Rumbley, Laura (eds). (2015). Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education: Global Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Comparative Education Review, Chicago University Press 0.757, 60(1), pp. 197-198.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Book review of Holmberg, Sören, and Rothstein, Bo. (eds.). (2012). Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science. Cheltenham, U.K.; Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 49(4), pp. 1154-1155.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Book review of Morris, Jeremy, and Polese, Abel (eds). (2014). The Informal Post-Socialist Economy: Embedded Practices and Livelihoods. London: Routledge. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 49(1), pp. 309-311.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Book review of Dzarasov, Ruslan. (2014). The Conundrum of Russian Capitalism: The Post-Soviet Economy in the World System. London: Pluto Press. Political Studies Review, Wiley 1.286, 13(3), p. 446.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Book review of Hay, Colin, and Wincott, Daniel. (2013). The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism. London: Palgrave. Capital & Class, SAGE, 39(3), pp. 556-558.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Book review of Becker, Uwe (ed.). (2013). The BRICs and Emerging Economies in Comparative Perspective: Political Economy, Liberalisation and Institutional Change. Abingdon: Routledge. Political Studies Review, Wiley 1.286, 13(3), p. 422.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Book review of Stewart, Susan (ed.). (2012). Democracy Promotion and the 'Colour Revolutions'. Abingdon: Routledge. Political Studies Review, Wiley 1.286, 13(1), pp. 119-120.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Book review of Rose, Richard, Mishler, William, and Munro, Neil. (2011). Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians. New York: Cambridge University Press. East European Politics, Routledge, 31(2), pp. 248-249.
Osipian, Ararat. (2015). Book review of Wilhelmsen, Julie, and Wilson Rowe, Elana. (2011). Russia's Encounter with Globalization: Actors, Processes and Critical Moments. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. East European Politics, Routledge, 31(1), pp. 126-127.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Pursiainen, Christer. (ed). (2012). At the Crossroads of Post-communist Modernisation: Russia and China in comparative perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 48(4), pp. 1160-1162.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Easter, Gerald M. (2012). Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. Comparative Sociology, Brill, 13(2), pp. 251-254.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Vinokurov, Evgeny, and Libman, Alexander. (2012). Eurasian Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Slavica Publishers, 3(2), pp. 337-339.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Åslund, Anders. (2009). How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy. Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 48(2), pp. 592-595.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Williams, Colin C., Round, John, and Rodgers, Peter. (2013). The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet World: The End of Transition? London: Routledge. Global Crime, Routledge, 15(3), pp. 383-386.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Kononenko, Vadim, and Moshes, Arkady (eds.). (2011). Russia as a Network State: What Works in Russia When State Institutions Do Not? New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Global Crime, Routledge, 15(1-2), pp. 208-210.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Libman, Alexander, and Vinokurov, Evgeny. (2012). Holding-Together Regionalism: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Integration. Euro-Asian Studies Series. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Europe-Asia Studies, Routledge, 0.706, 66(6), pp. 1022-1024.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Sutela, Pekka. (2012). The Political Economy of Putin’s Russia. New York: Routledge. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 48(1), pp. 257-259.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Wedeman, Andrew. (2012). Double Paradox. Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. Europe-Asia Studies, Routledge 0.578, 66(1), pp. 172-173.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Laruelle, Marlene, and Peyrouse, Sebastien. (2013). Globalizing Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development. New York, Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. Asian Politics & Policy, Wiley, 6(1), pp. 150-152.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Sakwa, Richard. (2011). The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. European Journal of Sociology, Cambridge 0.304, 55(3), pp. 482-485.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Frye, Timothy. (2010). Building States and Markets after Communism: the Perils of Polarized Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press. East European Politics, Routledge, 30(2), pp. 286-287.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Brück, Tilman, and Lehmann, Hartmut. (eds) (2012). In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Work, Employment & Society, SAGE 1.229, 28(5), pp. 839-841.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Hass, Jeffrey. (2012). Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience: Markets, Moral Economies and Cultural Contradictions of Post Socialist Russia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Comparative Sociology, Brill, 13(1), pp. 99-101.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Robinson, Neil (ed.). (2013). The Political Economy of Russia. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. East European Politics, Routledge, 30(1), pp. 147-148.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of White, Stephen. (2011). Understanding Russian Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press. Democratization, Routledge 0.725, 21(1), pp. 191-193.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Robertson, Graeme. (2011). The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia. New York: Cambridge University Press. Democratization, Routledge 0.725, 21(1), pp. 185-187.
Osipian, Ararat. (2014). Book review of Jonson, Lena, and White, Stephen (eds.). (2012). Waiting for Reform Under Putin and Medvedev. Houndmills & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Democratization, Routledge 0.725, 21(2), pp. 382-384.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Carnoy, Martin, Loyalka, Prashant, Dobryakova, Maria, Dossani, Rafiq, Froumin, Isak, Kuhns, Katherine, Tilak, Jandhyala B. G., and Wang, Rong. (2013). University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy: Triumph of the BRICs? Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, Springer 1.061, 66(6), pp. 777-779.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Myant, Martin, and Drahokoupil, Jan. (2011). Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. San Francisco, CA: Wiley. Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, Slavica Publishers, 2(2), pp. 317-319.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Hass, Jeffrey. (2011). Power, Culture, and Economic Change in Russia: To the Undiscovered Country of Post-Socialism, 1988-2008. New York: Routledge. Journal of Economic History, Cambridge 0.766, 73(4), pp. 1174-1175.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Roberts, Sean P. (2012). Putin’s United Russia Party. New York: Routledge. Democratization, Routledge 0.725, 20(7), pp. 1357-1359.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Bodin, Per-Arne, Hedlund, Stefan, and Namli, Elena (eds.). (2012). Power and Legitimacy - Challenges from Russia. New York: Routledge. Critical Policy Studies, Routledge, 7(2), pp. 213-215.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Wolff, Richard D., and Resnick, Stephen A. (2012). Contending Economic Theory: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 47(3), pp. 797-798.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Altbach, Philip G., Reisberg, Liz, Yudkevich, Maria, Androushchak, Gregory, and Kuzminov, Yaroslav (eds.). (2013). The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession: The BRICs and the United States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, Springer 1.061, 66(5), pp. 637-639.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Power, Timothy, and Taylor, Matthew. (2011). Corruptionand Democracy in Brazil: The Struggle for Accountability. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Routledge 0.510, 15(2), pp. 199-202.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Altbach, Philip G., Reisberg, Liz, Yudkevich, Maria,Androushchak, Gregory, and Pacheco, Iván F. (eds.). (2012). Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts. New York: Routledge. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, Springer 1.061, 66(5), pp. 635-636.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Rothstein, Bo. (2011). The Quality of Government: The Political Economy of Corruption, Social Trust and Inequality in an International Comparative Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Law & Society Review, Wiley 1.434, 47(2), pp. 457-459.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Yadav, Vineeta. (2011). Political Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in Developing Countries. New York: Oxford University Press. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Routledge 0.510, 15(1), pp. 102-104.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Salmenniemi, Suvi (ed.). (2012). Rethinking Class in Russia. Farnham & Burlington: Ashgate. European Journal of Sociology, Cambridge 0.304, 54(3), pp. 504-507.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Popova, Maria. (2012). Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: a Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Critical Policy Studies, Routledge, 7(3), pp. 369-371.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Kupatadze, Alexander. (2012). Organized Crime, Political Transitions and State Formation in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Global Crime, Routledge, 14(1), pp. 110-113.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Gilman, Martin. (2010). No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia’s 1998 Default. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Political Studies Review, Wiley 1.286. 11(3), pp. 453-454.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Rose-Ackerman, Susan, and Soreide, Tina (eds.). (2011). International Handbook of the Economics of Corruption, Volume Two. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 47(1), pp. 284-286.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Taylor, Brian D. (2011). State Building in Putin's Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Brill, 40(1), pp. 143-145.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Treisman, Daniel. (2011). The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev. New York: Free Press. Democratization, Routledge 0.725, 20(4), pp. 795-798.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Fortescue, Stephen (ed.). (2010). Russian Politics From Lenin to Putin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Democratization, Routledge 0.725, 20(6), pp. 1166-1168.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Urban, Michael. (2010). Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. East European Politics, Routledge, 29(2), pp. 252-253.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Bunce, Valerie, and Wolchik, Sharon. (2011). Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Democratization, Routledge 0.725, 20(7), pp. 1350-1351.
Osipian, Ararat. (2013). Book review of Fournier, Anna. (2012). Forging Rights in a New Democracy. Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Social Anthropology, Wiley, 21(4), pp. 581-582.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Book review of Remington, Thomas F. (2011). The Politics of Inequality in Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 4(3), pp. 143-144.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Book review of Gel’man, Vladimir, and Ross, Cameron (eds.).(2010). The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Journal of Peace Research, SAGE 1.980, 49(6), p. 876.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Book review of Giuliano, Elise. (2011). Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia’s Republics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Routledge, 40(6), pp. 961-963.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Book review of Hedlund, Stefan. (2011). Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure. New York: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge 0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 46(4), pp. 1086-1088.
Osipian, Ararat. (2012). Book review of Vavilov, Andrey. (2010). The Russian Public Debt and Financial Meltdowns. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Journal of Economic Issues, Routledge0.573, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), 46(2), pp. 583-584.
Osipian, Ararat. (2011). Book review of Sakwa, Richard. (2009). The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 3(3), pp. 167-169.
Osipian, Ararat. (2011). Book review of Duhamel, Luc. (2010). The KGB Campaign Against Corruption in Moscow, 1982-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Global Crime, Routledge, 12(3), pp. 236-238.
Osipian, Ararat. (2011). Book review of Åslund, Anders, Guriev, Sergei, and Kuchins, Andrew C. (eds.). (2010). Russia after the Global Economic Crisis. Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Heldref, 19(2), pp. 176-178.
Osipian, Ararat. (2011). Book review of Ward, Christopher J. (2009). Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism. University of Pittsburgh Press. Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Brill, 38(2), pp. 231-233.
Osipian, Ararat. (2010). Book Review of Uslaner, Eric. (2008). Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life. New York: Cambridge University Press. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Heldref, 18(1), pp. 94-96.
Osipian, Ararat. (2008). Book Review of Hallak, Jacques, and Poisson, Muriel. (2007). Corrupt Schools, Corrupt Universities: What Can Be Done? Paris: Institute for International Educational Planning. Canadian and International Education Journal, CIES Canada, 37(2), pp. 99-101.
Invited talks:
Osipian, A. (2024). World Bank Comes to Ukraine: Improving Higher Education for Results. New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study, New Europe Foundation, Bucharest, Romania, July 3, 2024.
Osipian, A. (2023). World Bank Comes to Ukraine: University Mergers, Protests, Corruption, War. “The Future of SEEES Expertise: How Can We Anticipate Tomorrow’s Differences?” The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, with support from the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies. March 31, 2023.
Osipian, A. (2023). World Bank Comes to Ukraine: University Mergers, Protests, Corruption, War. International Symposium of the Survival Strategies Platform “Survival Strategies of Ukraine and Russia,” Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, February 21-22, 2023.
Osipian, A. (2018). Faculty Misconduct, Corruption, and Doctoral Degree Fraud in Ukraine. Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, September 13, 2018.
Osipian, A. (2016). Let Me Write a Dissertation for You: Faculty misconduct, corruption and doctoral degrees fraud. New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study, New Europe Foundation, Bucharest, Romania, November 2016.
Papers presented at the conferences:
Osipian, A. (2025). Corporate Raiding and Predatory State in Russia: Yukos, O1 Group, Cherkizon. Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington, DC, October 2025. Virtual.
Osipian, A. (2025). Post-war reconstruction of equitable and sustainable higher education in Ukraine. Annual Conference of the New University in Exile Consortium, New School University, New York, NY, and Humboldt University Berlin, April 2025.
Osipian, A. (2024). Give me your tired, your poor,… your Yukos, your yachts: Internationalization of predatory raiding. Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Boston, MA, October 2024.
Osipian, A. (2024). Bringing World Bank to Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction of equitable and sustainable higher education. XVIII World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 2024.
Osipian, A. (2024). Mobilizing Academia: Russian authoritarianism, university protests and Navalny’s anti-corruption movement. Annual Conference of the New University in Exile Consortium, New School University, New York, NY, May 2024.
Osipian, A. (2023). World Bank Comes to Ukraine: University Mergers, Protests, Corruption, and War. Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Philadelphia, PA, October 2023.
Osipian, A. (2021). Galvanizing academia: student protests and Navalny’s anti-corruption movement. Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), New Orleans, LA, December 2021.
Osipian, A. (2021). Student protests and corruption in Russian universities: Does Alexei Navalny lead the youth? Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Puerto Rico, November 2021.
Osipian, A. (2021). Mapping Student Protests in Russia: the Navalny factor. Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, WA, September 2021.
Osipian, A. (2021). Sextortion in Academia: Sexual harassment, corruption and extortion in post-Communist education. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Chicago, IL, August 2021.
Osipian, A. (2021). Student protests and anti-corruption movement in Russia during the pre-Navalny era. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Chicago, IL, August 2021.
Osipian, A. (2021). Is There Potential for Regime Change in Russia? Channeling student protests in a “right” direction. Annual Conference of the New University in Exile Consortium, New School University, New York, NY, May 2021.
Osipian, A. (2019). Let Me Write a Dissertation for You: Faculty misconduct, corruption and doctoral degree fraud in Ukraine. Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), San Francisco, CA, November 2019.
Osipian, A. (2019). Economics of corruption in doctoral education in Ukraine. The 25th Annual REECAS Northwest Conference, Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies. Seattle, WA, April 2019.
Osipian, A. (2019). Micro-level cost-benefit approach to doctoral degree fraud in Ukraine. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), San Francisco, CA, April 2019.
Osipian, A. (2013). A Repressive Regime with Handy Courts: Political Persecution and Corruption in Ukraine. Annual Conference of the Law & Society Association (LSA), Boston, MA, May 2013.
Osipian, A. (2013). Technological Failure as a Moving Force: Selectivity and Corruption in Access to Higher Education in the Russian Federation. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), New Orleans, LA, March 2013.
Osipian, A. (2012). From Khodorkovsky to Hermitage Capital: Building the New System of Property Rights in Transition Economies. Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), New Orleans, LA, November 2012.
Osipian, A. (2012). Testing Integrity with Standardized Tests: Corruption and Reform in Higher Education in Central Asia. Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Bloomington, IN, October, 2012.
Osipian, A. (2011). Information Asymmetry, Uncertainty, and Risk Aversion: Prices and Pricing on the Dissertations for Sale Market. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Las Vegas, NV, August 2011.
Osipian, A. (2011). New Challenges for Russian Universities: Corruption, Politicization, and Student Activism. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Las Vegas, NV, August 2011.
Osipian, A. (2010). Corruption in Doctoral Education in Transition Economies: The Dissertations Market. Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Indianapolis, IN, November, 2010.
Osipian, A. (2010). Corporate Raiding Russian Style: Hostile Takeovers via Corruption and Fraud. Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington, DC, September 2010.
Osipian, A. (2010). How to Buy a Doctoral Degree? An Inquiry into the Dissertations for Sale Market. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, IL, March, 2010.
Osipian, A. (2009). Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Political Corruption of Russian Doctorates. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), San Francisco, CA, August 2009.
Osipian, A. (2009). Corrupt Organizational Hierarchies in the Former Soviet Bloc. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), San Francisco, CA, August 2009.
Osipian, A. (2008). Modeling Educators’ Misconduct with Cellular Automata. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Boston, MA, August, 2008.
Osipian, A. (2007). Corruption Hierarchies in Education in Developing and Transition Societies. Annual Conference of the University Council for Education Administration (UCEA), Alexandria, VA, November, 2007.
Osipian, A. (2007). Replacing University Entry Examinations with Standardized Tests in Russia: Will It Reduce Corruption? Annual Conference of the University Council for Education Administration (UCEA), Alexandria, VA, November, 2007.
Osipian, A. (2007). Higher Education Corruption in the World Media: Prevalence, Patterns, and Forms. Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Louisville, KY, November, 2007.
Osipian, A. (2007). “Feed from the Service”: Corruption and Coercion in the State—University Relations. Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October, 2007.
Osipian, A. (2007). Corruption and Reform of Russian Higher Education. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), NYC, August, 2007.
Osipian, A. (2007). Graft in Academia: International Perspectives on Corruption in Higher Education. Conference “Beyond Borders: Global Change and Education in Action”. New York University, NYC, March, 2007.
Osipian, A. (2007). Corruption in Secondary and Higher Education: Conceptual Approaches and Investigative Techniques. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, February, 2007.
Osipian, A. (2007). Human Capital – Economic Growth Nexus in the Former Soviet Bloc. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, February, 2007.
Osipian, A. (2006). Corruption in Higher Education in Organizational Perspective: Case of the Former Soviet Bloc. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, March, 2006.
Osipian, A. (2005). Politicized University: Lessons from the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Philadelphia, PA, August, 2005.
Osipian, A. (2005). Corruption and Coercion: University Autonomy versus State Control. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, March, 2005.
Osipian, A. (2005). Anatomy of Corruption: Clinical Investigation of the Project of Institutional Partnership. Research Conference and International Forum. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February, 2005.
Osipian, A. (2004). Corruption as a Legacy of the Medieval University. Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Kansas City, November 2004.
Osipian, A. (2004). Facilitating Economic Development through the Reform of Economic Instruction. International Conference “75 Years of Development Research.” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May, 2004.
Osipian, A. (2004). Corruption in Higher Education: Who, Whom, How, and How Much. Research Conference and International Forum. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February, 2004.
Osipian, A. (2003). Corruption in Higher Education: Ethics and Conflict in International Perspective. National Conference of the National Association of the Graduate and Professional Students (NAGPS). Washington, DC, November, 2003.
Osipian, A. (2003). Vouchers for Higher Education in Russia: What to Expect and How to Measure. Research Conference and International Forum. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February, 2003.
Osipian, A. (2002). International Exchange in Higher Education: Economics and Politics. Graduate Program in Economic Development Alumni Conference. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, December 2002.
Osipian, A. (2002). International Reform in Higher Education Policy: Economic Issues. NorthEast Conference for Graduate/Professional Students. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 2002.
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