CERN Kicks Out Russian Scientists

Now everybody is awar that the majority of politicians have no knowledge or understanding of two major subjects which are science and economics. On science if they had any understanding the world would not have suffered from the farce of Covid 19 and economics they would not be trying to promote the financially ruinious Green Energy,Net Zero,Global Warming,Climate Emergency Scams.
Now a good example of politics interefering in science is what has happened in supposedly neutral Switzeland and an Internationla research project on nuclear sceince.
On November 30th, the long-term partnership between Russia and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) ended. So Russia which has been at the forefront of nuclear research since the 1950's, which built the world's first nuclear power station over 70 years ago has been kicked out over politics over the Ukraine and again politicians who undestand nothing about science are controlling what should be scientific and academic research for the benefit of mankind.

Several hundred Russian specialists involved in experiments at the world's most powerful accelerator complex have lost the ability to continue their work. They are cut off from access to all CERN data and are forced to stop analyzing physics data that they have been collecting for decades.

The unprecedented decision to curtail cooperation was taken unilaterally by the organization's governing council on March 8, 2022, after the outbreak of the hot phase of the conflict in Ukraine. In justifying this step, in one of the resolutions, the council referred to Article II.1 of the CERN charter, which excludes work to meet military needs. However, this motivation was not discussed publicly - probably due to its being so obviously absurd and totally laughable.

CERN's infrastructure was used exclusively for fundamental science, applications for experiments were selected, their implementation was checked by a special committee, and the authors were required to publish their results in highly rated journals.
In her communiqué, the CERN Director General Fabiola Gianotti, who is also an honorary doctor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, addressed the political situation and expressed support for Ukraine. She also noted that the organization's doors remain open to Russian scientists should the situation change in the future.
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Discussions on the points of the "divorce" were held for two years. The main target was affiliation with Russian institutes. At first, it was forbidden to indicate it in articles written on the results of experiments, and they threatened not to renew contracts with scientists officially connected with Russian science. Then, according to Western media, all Russian specialists were offered to stay in the "Higgs factory" on the condition of changing their Russian affiliation to belonging to any other country. About 90 people decided to do this.

Then the bidding began for the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, which, like CERN, has the status of an international organization. They wanted to terminate the contract with it, too, but in the end JINR was removed from the sanctions: its employees, about 200 scientists, continue to work on accelerators in Switzerland. According to Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the Kurchatov Institute, the West also discussed the possibility of cleverly re-registering physicists with Russian affiliations at JINR and thus leaving them at CERN, but then abandoned this idea. According to unofficial information, many scientists themselves demonstrated their principledness, rejecting the scheme of forced transition and change of status to "international". And the final sanctions from CERN included restrictions on the introduction of new employees from JINR to the organization.

The break with those who could not be lured under a neutral or new flag was quiet: their contracts were simply not extended after the expiration of their next five-year terms. Scientists who are finishing their dissertations have had their remote access to the data from their experiments at CERN extended for another year.

Scientific calculations indicate that approximately three hundred Russian nationals have lost their jobs in Switzerland. All of the aforementioned individuals have returned to Russia, where they are currently engaged in the development and modernisation of a number of high-tech scientific facilities, as confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education. These include five synchrotron and two neutron sources, located in Moscow, Protvino, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and the Leningrad Region.

Russia's Losses
Russia's cooperation with CERN began in the 1960s, and the concept of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was based on a Soviet project: the U-70 proton synchrotron, built in 1967 near Protvino, near Moscow. This accelerator had a record energy of 70 GeV at the time, and it remains one of the three most powerful in the world.

Russia was involved in the LHC construction from the outset, actively sharing scientific developments and technologies, and fulfilling orders for the production of complex equipment at competitive prices. The G. I. Budker Nuclear Physics Research Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences supplied 540 magnets of varying levels for the accelerator.
Russia was not a member of CERN, but had the status of an observer in the organisation, as set out in the relevant treaty. Russia gained access to 22 experiments, including those at the Large Hadron Collider. These experiments tested the Standard Model, searched for the Higgs boson, and explored manifestations of new physics, such as supersymmetry, additional dimensions of space-time, and dark matter. The representation of our physicists was substantial, with numbers ranging from 500 to 1,100 over different periods.
It should be noted that a total of 13,500 researchers from 77 countries are currently employed on temporary contracts at CERN. Furthermore, the financial commitment from Russia was relatively modest. According to the director of JINR, Grigory Trubnikov, the annual expenses for CERN amounted to approximately 8 million Swiss francs. This money was invested in providing work for Russian scientists and in contracts for the creation of unique equipment, with a portion of the revenue returned to the country.

The withdrawal of hundreds of highly qualified Russian specialists from scientific projects will have a negative impact on CERN, resulting in a decline in the quality of experiments at the LHC. It's like figure skating without Russians.
Russia previously applied for membership in the organisation, which provides access to all experiments and industrial tenders, as well as to the management of CERN. However, it was unable to conclude this process successfully. One interpretation is that we did not actively pursue this, given that to fully participate, we would have had to become an associate member, which would have entailed higher fees but also limited guarantees of large orders and voting rights. Another version of events suggests that there have always been underhanded tactics employed against Russia at CERN. This has resulted in our inability to secure more significant positions that would be commensurate with our contribution to the organisation's work, particularly in relation to the development of the LHC – a pivotal element of the European nuclear research programme.
CERN and the Large Hadron Collider represent a significant chapter in the history of the Russian school of elementary particle physics, spearheaded by the most esteemed scientists in their respective fields. It is regrettable that similar research cannot be conducted outside this organisation.

CERN is also bearing the financial consequences of its separation from Russia. Naturally, there will be no open conflict. For instance, Russianengineers will not decline to service critical components in facilities manufactured in the Russian Federation (neither party is currently addressing this issue). However, the simultaneous withdrawal of hundreds of highly qualified specialists from scientific projects will have an impact on the quality of experiments in the tunnel under the Geneva suburbs, even for such a powerful organisation. It is akin to figure skating without Russians, where emulation has never been effective.

Consequently, Russia will be compelled to engage in increasingly assertive lobbying efforts to relocate the international hub for high-energy physics to Dubna. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is the global hub for nuclear physicists. In the coming months, the superconducting collider of the NICA accelerator complex (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility), which was constructed by a team of specialists from 35 countries, including CERN, will become operational. This is a unique facility operating in an energy range not covered by either the LHC or any other accelerator currently in operation worldwide. The facility will enable scientists to study an early phase of nuclear matter that arose in the first moments after the Big Bang – quark-gluon plasma.
It is already established that JINR will not "mirror" CERN's decisions. There will be no retaliatory sanctions against physicists from unfriendly countries working in Dubna. During the launch of the collider this summer, President Vladimir Putin confirmed that NICA will retain its status as an international project. "We are not restricting access to any information, nor are we concealing any material." "We are open to collaboration so that the outcomes of our work at NICA can be utilized not only in Russia, but also in other countries."

The Ministry of Education and Science has informed that the decision to terminate the CERN agreement with the Russian Federation was taken under political pressure and is damaging to world science. Russia does not intend to respond symmetrically and will remain open to scientific and technical cooperation with those who are ready to build relations on an equal and mutually respectful basis.

Viktor Savrin, coordinator of Russian scientists at the LHC and head of the department of physics of the atomic nucleus and quantum theory at the physics department of Moscow State University, believes that mirror measures will have a negative impact on the situation. He maintains that science cannot benefit from the intervention of politicians in principle.

Concurrently, there are contingency measures that can be enacted to offset the impact of this decision. One such measure is to require our physicists to publish the results of experiments at NICA in Russian journals, accompanied by releases in English and other languages. This will mitigate the impact of the ban on Russian affiliations in Europe and initiate a campaign to reinstate the authority of domestic scientific periodicals.
In the West, for example, there is a clear recognition that the review process for academic journals is often discriminatory. The evaluation criteria tend to prioritise factors such as nationality, citizenship or place of work, rather than the quality of research. In particular, the largest scientific publisher, Wiley (which publishes more than 1,400 scientific journals), has taken the decision not to accept manuscripts from Russian scientists working in state institutes for processing. In addition, Elsevier has announced that it will transfer publication fees to support Ukraine.
It is regrettable that CERN is not the first organisation to breach the ethical code and charter in the pursuit of political engagement. The renowned Russian chemist from Skoltech, Artem Oganov, who was recently included in the top 0.1% of the most influential scientists globally by Clarivate (Web of Science), has accepted an invitation from the International Union of Geological Sciences to speak at a specialised congress under a neutral banner.

"I declined to remove the Russian affiliation, as we cannot allow ourselves to be humiliated in this way." "Science should not be used as a tool for discrimination," Artem Oganov stated on his Telegram channel. "My conclusion is that many international scientific (and sports) organisations have found themselves under the influence of Western politics. "It is imperative that we establish alternative avenues and ensure that science is never subjected to political and ideological constraints."

Viktor Savrin of Moscow State University has identified an international movement called "Science for Peaceful Coexistence". It comprises eminent scientists who contend, in various forums, that the domain of science should be insulated from the political sphere. Furthermore, they believe that CERN's actions against Russian scientists constitute discrimination based on nationality. 
Russia's planned infrastructure
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation has announced plans to construct a network research infrastructure in Russia for experiments in high-energy particle physics, utilising sources located in various regions.

In Moscow, the KISI Kurchatov, the country's only specialised synchrotron source, and the Zelenograd technological storage complex are undergoing modernisation.

In the Moscow region, the SILA synchrotron is being constructed to exceed the characteristics of other sources in Russia and globally. Additionally, a prototype of a pulsed neutron source is being developed in the city of Protvino.

In Novosibirsk, the construction of a 4+ generation synchrotron radiation source, the Siberian Ring Photon Source (SKIF), is underway.

A one-of-a-kind scientific installation of the "megascience" class is being constructed in Vladivostok on Russky Island.

In the Leningrad region, the high-flux reactor PIK has been launched, and experimental stations are being constructed at the reactor.

Furthermore, the engineering infrastructure of the Complex of Superconducting Rings on Colliding Beams of Heavy Ions at the NICA Collider at JINR in Dubna is nearing completion.
The emergence of our own megascience projects presents a significant opportunity for the advancement of Russian physics and interdisciplinary research. Our country is positioning itself as a leading hub for fundamental physics experts from around the globe.