Fursenko reported on attempts by unfriendly countries to resume work with Russia in science

Unfriendly countries are significantly changing their policy towards Russia in the field of science. This was reported on February 5 by Andrei Fursenko, the Russian president's aide for science and education.

"I can say that the countries, which, conventionally, are called unfriendly, are changing their policy to a significant extent today," he said at a press conference in Moscow.

He also noted that there have been attempts to resume contacts. According to Fursenko, there are serious attempts in Germany "to resume past or start new research without noise, quietly."

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Earlier, on November 28, 2024, the president of the national research center "Kurchatov Institute" Mikhail Kovalchuk said that Europe is "screwed" without Russian scientists who are barred from joint projects. According to him, the European scientific program was once practically created thanks to the contribution of the Russian Federation.

Before that, on September 18 of that year, it became known that the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will expel hundreds of scientists associated with Russian institutions by the end of November if they do not move to work in scientific institutions of other countries.

Kovalchuk, commenting on this, said that CERN would face the consequences. At the same time, Fursenko noted that foreign scientists were not in agreement with the exclusion of Russian specialists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research projects.

Later, in December 2024, it became known that the cooperation agreement between Russia and CERN had been terminated.