Russian Physicist Sentenced to 12 Years for Treason over scientific cooperation with Dutch colleagues
Russian Physicist Sentenced to 12 Years for Treason over scientific cooperation with Dutch colleagues
A Moscow court has sentenced a physicist who worked on hypersonic development to 12 years in a penal colony on treason charges, the independent Mediazona news website reported Friday. Anatoly Gubanov, 66, is the former head of the Aerodynamics of Aircrafts and Rockets Department at the Moscow ...
According to the Perviy Otdel human rights project, project reports passed by Gubanov and Golubkin to their Dutch colleagues had been examined by three specialized commissions prior to submission. None of these commissions found state secrets in the reports, Perviy Otdel said.
Several Russian scientists have been jailed in recent years in what critics say is a reflection of the state’s increasing paranoia toward scientific cooperation with foreign countries.
The scientific community has warned that treason cases against scientists will have a chilling effect on young researchers.
The scientific community has warned that treason cases against scientists will have a chilling effect on young researchers.
Yeah, they're all going to leave Russia and never come back.
Sons and daughters of Russian oligarchs will.
It was always hard and expensive to leave Russia for a first world country, and right now most of those countries are making it even harder and even more expensive than before.
For example Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, (most of which share a border with Russia) banned Russians from entering the countries outright, regardless of purpose, greatly limiting options for leaving Russia via land.
Other countries introduces other restrictions, like directing anyone wishing to get a visa to their embassies in Moscow exclusively. Which is a bit of a problem, considering the size of the country.
Oh, an of course there are inherent restrictions due to the visa facilitation agreement being suspended.
The article above makes it pretty clear Russia is interested in preventing international cooperation. So I wouldn't expect things like joined research endeavors or exchange programs to be common, if allowed to happen at all.
So, how does any of that facilitate brain drain, exactly?
Not a problem, they are needed on the front instead. Why educate and train a researcher when infantry only requires 3 days of training and a shared rifle in the army.
Quick, shoot our foot harder!
No no you're doing it wrong, use the minigun.
The state sponsored brain drains continue at breakneck speed (or perhaps polonium or fall-out-of-a-window speed)
It continues at c.
Give it a few years and Russians will not understand this joke anymore.
Russia's going to have to go full North Korea to keep from losing anyone that is sober enough and has the mental overhead to realize that the country is going straight down the proverbial turlet.
But that many miles of border with nations that have seen just how ineffective they truly are... yeah, that does not bode well for Russia's future.
Two related insights.
Human Decapitalization. The Unsolvable Problems of the Russian Labor Market (June 2023)
Vladimir Gimpelson, Professor of Practice in Russian Studies in the Department Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses the state and prospects of the Russian labor market. From the second half of 2022 onward, the “demographic hole” has been overlaid by war losses, emigration, and structural changes directly related to the war.
'There Will Be no Collapses, but Rather a Viscous, Slow Sinking into Backwardness’ (June 2023)
Natalia Zubarevich, Professor of the Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia of the Moscow State University, talks about the labor shortage in Russia, the trends in labor migration within the country, how resource exports are being redirected to China, how compensation from the state is helping to get men to sign up, and how Russians, unable to change anything, are building barriers between themselves and the war.