Institution should ‘stop selling its reputation to Putin’s associates’ and rethink cash from Len Blavatnik,critics sayOxford University has been urged to review its decision to accept £75m from Len Blavatnik, Britain’s richest man, or to build the Blavatnik school of government.
In a letter to the Guardian,the signatories accuse the university of failing to investigate whether Blavatnik and other oligarchs played any role in what they represent as a state-sponsored campaign of harassment against BP in Russia. Oxford “should stop selling its reputation and prestige to Putin’s associates,” it says. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com