ON INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE UNDER CONDITIONS OF MARITIME

Issues of international scientific activity of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine under martial law were considered at the meeting of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on March 30, 2022.

The President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Anatoliy Zagorodniy informed about the state of affairs in this area of ​​activity. Thus, in accordance with the decision of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine to terminate all forms of cooperation between the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Russian scientific organizations and Russian scientists, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine withdrew from the International Association of Academies of Sciences, which didn’t bother neither to blame unprovoked military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, nor to call for an immediate end to the bloody violence by the aggressor against the civilian population of Ukraine, to stop the destruction of the industrial and scientific potential of our country.

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine terminated agreements on scientific and technical cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Mikhail Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who were elected by the Russian Academy of Sciences as foreign members of this academy, sent a collective statement to the Presidium of the RAS about their resignation from foreign members of the RAS.

With regard to foreign members of the NAS of Ukraine who supported the criminal actions of the leadership of the Russian Federation, the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine at its meeting on March 17, 2022 instructed the Academy to submit to the General Meeting of the NAS of Ukraine the submission on expulsion of these persons from the membership of foreign members of the NAS of Ukraine in the manner prescribed by the Statute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Also, figures of Russian science, culture, Russian statesmen and public figures who supported the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine will be deprived of the title of “Honorary Doctor of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.”

Members of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine discussed the further participation of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the activities of the International Intergovernmental Research Center Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) (Dubna, Russia). Since the beginning of the armed invasion to our country, the JINR leadership has not expressed any words condemning the war, any calls to stop the violence, stop bombing peaceful cities and destroy civilian, including scientific, infrastructure, or words of support for the permanent JINR member state – Ukraine. Specialists in nuclear and high-energy physics working at the JINR, who know the possible consequences of radiation accidents, also did not react to Russia’s nuclear terrorism, including the capture of nuclear facilities at the Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plants and bombing of the research facility “Source of neutrons” in Kharkiv. In view of this, the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine decided to suspend cooperation with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

The Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine O. Rafalsky took part in the work of the Presidium.