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🛳️👀💥 Ukrainian intelligence services planned to attack the Baltic Fleet ship Smolny during its port call in Cape Town, South Africa, in August 2024, — Washington Post

June 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM

The Atlantic

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Before coming to Columbia, Anastasiia Vorozhtsova went to Smolny College, a liberal-arts school in St. Petersburg.

“Russian authorities intervened, and my alma mater started unraveling. Smolny’s story offers a warning that Columbia must heed”:

Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.

Smolny College is a warning.

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May 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM

The Atlantic

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Before coming to Columbia, Anastasiia Vorozhtsova went to Smolny College, a liberal-arts school in St. Petersburg.

“Russian authorities intervened, and my alma mater started unraveling. Smolny’s story offers a warning that Columbia must heed”:

Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.

Smolny College is a warning.

bit.ly

May 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM

The Atlantic

@theatlantic.com

Before coming to Columbia, Anastasiia Vorozhtsova went to Smolny College, a liberal-arts school in St. Petersburg.

“Russian authorities intervened, and my alma mater started unraveling. Smolny’s story offers a warning that Columbia must heed”:

Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.

Smolny College is a warning.

bit.ly

May 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM

Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

Would be interested to know more about Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship to Smolny College, the @bardcollege.bsky.social-affiliated school in Russia where he seems to have facilitated admissions for several young women.

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very interesting the simony president said he would accept you and it turns out you
get us credits as it is a sub of bard college . great scam
10:35:19 am

Oh! Thank you so much! How was the meeting?)
I have seen it on the Smolny link, they have this program with Bard... but is it possible
to be accepted by Smolny and at the same time be transferred and study at Bard.. ?
10:41:03 am

yes after a yar
10:41:23 am

first year smolny but the credits also are us credits transferable to any us school
10:41:55 am

I'm afraid to leave USA now
10:41:59 am

i understand however the transfer program is great. as you are already enrolled in a
US School abroad.
10:42:45 am

0. 1
all alternatives open. can see you later
10:43:23 am

you need to be coforabke
10:43:35 am

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March 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM

Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

Notably, Raskin raises questions about whether Epstein may have used his ties to @bardcollege.bsky.social to traffic women from Russia. In his communications with Bard president Leon Botstein, Epstein frequently mentions Smolny College, a Bard-affiliated school in St Petersburg.

June 18, 2026 at 8:23 PM

El Faradio

@elfaradio.bsky.social

🌍 Smolny aborda este viernes los retos y oportunidades de la inmigración.

📍 Centro Social Smolny, Santander | 🕢 Viernes 2 de octubre, 19:30 h

👉 Mas detalles en 🔗 www.elfaradio.com/2026/10/01/s...

#Santander #Cantabria #Inmigración #Migración #Smolny #DerechosHumanos

Smolny aborda este viernes los retos y oportunidades de la inmigración - El Faradio | Periodismo que cuenta

Tiempo de lectura: 5 min Comparte en redes Facebook Twitter Bluesky Whatsapp Email El Centro Social Smolny de Santander acogerá este viernes 2 de octubre, a las 19:30 horas, la charla ‘Inmigración: re...

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October 1, 2026 at 11:24 AM

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John Dos Passos, NINETEEN NINETEEN (1932):

The world's no fun anymore, only machinegunfire and arson starvation lice bedbugs cholera typhus no lint for bandages no chloroform or cther thousands dead of gangrened wounds, cordon sanitaire and evcrywhere spies.
The windows of Smolny glow whitehot like a bessemer, no sleep in Smolny. > Smolny the giant rolling mill running twentyfour hours a day rolling out men nations hopes millenniums impulses fears, rawmaterial for the foundations of a new society.
A man has to do many things in his life Reed Was a westerner words meant what they said. He threw everything he had and himself into Smolny dictatorship of the proletariat; U.S.S.R. The first workers republic was established and stands Reed wrote, undertook missions, there were spies everywhere, worked till he dropped. caught typhus and died in Moscow

December 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM

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February 22, 2026 at 9:19 AM

Musicology Duck

@musicologyduck.bsky.social

this part i think still needs more investigation

Emails show Epstein reached out to Botstein in May 2014 to ask about sending Pozhidaeva on a tour of Smolny, a Russian college with a dual credit program with Bard. Botstein responded by sharing the names of four faculty members, who Botstein later said he would contact to share Pozhidaeva’s name. He later warned Epstein that any funding of Smolny should be routed through Bard “for reasons of safety and protection against corruption”.

In a later email, in which her name was redacted, Pozhidaeva seemed confused about her task: she asked Epstein how she should go about deciding whether the place is worth funding, and what to fund if it is. In a reference to Botstein’s email – which had been forwarded to her – she asked Epstein whether she should say she worked for a “private investor”. “Yes”, Epstein replied. It is unclear whether Epstein ended up funding Smolny, how it may have been orchestrated, or what the funding may have been for. The Russian government declared Bard “undesirable” in 2021, effectively ending the college’s dual credit Russian program.

March 24, 2026 at 11:38 AM

Tino Güemes

@tguemes.bsky.social

Un proyecto de Smolny formará sobre inteligencia artificial y lucha contra la desinformación | www.elfaradio.com/2026/09/28/u... vía @elfaradio.bsky.social

Un proyecto de Smolny formará sobre inteligencia artificial y lucha contra la desinformación - El Faradio | Periodismo que cuenta

Tiempo de lectura: 5 min Comparte en redes Facebook Twitter Bluesky Whatsapp Email El Centro Social Smolny –que abre etapa nueva en un nuevo local, en Castilla-Hermida– desarrollará en Cantabria el pr...

www.elfaradio.com

September 29, 2026 at 5:18 AM

Elmira Bayrasli

@elmirab.bsky.social

It can happen here. From my student who went from Smolny in Russia to Columbia. She was able to nurture her brilliance. I think about all the other students trapped in not just authoritarian but hostile and dangerous regimes who will never reach their potential.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.

Smolny College is a warning.

www.theatlantic.com

May 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM

Éditions Libertalia

@libertalialivre.bsky.social

[Captation]

La rencontre consacrée à Penser l'émancipation autrement. Huit marxistes hétérodoxes (Smolny) est en ligne.

Copiez ce lien pour écouter l'échange entre Romaric Godin et Éric Sevault.

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Une vidéo de David Even.