“MEASURES ARE TAKEN TO RETURN TO THE HOMELAND”: BORYS DOTSENKO CASE OF 1967
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the article, based on unpublished archival materials and printed sources, an episode with defection in 1967 with an internship in Edmonton by a senior researcher at the Laboratory of Nuclear Physics at the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University Borys Dotsenko is covered. At the end of his stay at the University of Alberta, unexpectedly, trainee asked for political asylum in Canada. The scientist explained his step by reason of both political and professional nature. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR succeeded in a series of measures designed to return the “nonreturnees” (“nevozvrashchenets”), including pressure on Canadian authorities. The rector of the University of Kyiv sent a telegram to the president of the University of Alberta on “provocative actions” concerning their trainee. After unsuccessful attempts by the staff of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa to persuade the physicist to return to Kyiv, the KGB resorted to the use of a “family factor” (touching letters from his wife and mother). Despite appeals from the official Moscow to return B. Dotsenko, the Canadian government referred to the human right to choose a residence and extended the visa. To somehow explain the fact of non-return of the scientist, a widely accepted method of total compromise was used. In general, the flight of B. Dotsenko caused the Soviet system of image losses and led to the cessation of the practice of exchanging scholarship between the University of Alberta and Kyiv.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".