The ideological positioning of the universities found in Russia is extremely hampered, since we really have no clearly defined ideology. I can hardly think of even one major university where its heads do not agree with the position voiced by state officials at the highest level, just as I can hardly imagine a rector who is publicly against modernisation. When something other than the term ‘modernisation’ becomes the key word of political rhetoric in the country, there will also not be any opponents to that concept...