As sanctions take effect following its invasion of Ukraine, Russia risks its standing in the research world.
The Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow is based in a building whose bronze embellishments have earned it the nickname ‘golden brains’.On the banks of the Moskva River, just upstream from the Kremlin and Red Square, sits a grandiose network of interconnected concrete buildings. The tallest two are bejewelled with bulky bronze structures, and this unique aesthetic has earned the Moscow-based Russian Academy of Sciences its nickname — ‘golden brains’.
“I want to address scientists in the Western world and say that it can’t be business as usual for them and their collaborations with Russia,” says Maksym Strikha, a physicist at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv who has stayed behind in the Ukrainian capital, partly because he thinks he’s too old to start a career in the West. “I’m a professor and respected person here. It’s really too late for me to start work from point zero elsewhere,” he says.
“I hope that research collaborations will continue in an open way that respects the values for honest research and academic freedom,” says Treisman. “Many people in Russia’s higher-education system are the most pro-internationalist and anti-war of Russian society. This isn’t their war.” But he, too, fears that cutting scientific links could do more harm than good. “Why shouldn’t people outside of Russia cooperate with the scientists who signed the letter?” he says. “I worry that the authorities in Russia would be interested in cutting scientific collaborations even more than the West.”
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