Russian Scientists Banned From Working With Foreigners

Without F.S.B. oversight.

Russian scientists and scientific organizations have been banned from cooperating with foreigners without the approval of the Federal Security Service (FSB). This follows from the decree of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers, which was published on the official portal of normative legal acts. According to the document, information on foreign participants in scientific projects, including Russian organizations with foreign founders, will now be entered into the unified state system of R&D accounting. The Ministry of Education and Science, in its turn, will have to transfer this data to the FSB within five days after their registration. The FSB will have 60 days to consider the application and make a decision to admit or deny the participation of foreign citizens in scientific work.

The government decree was adopted as part of the implementation of the law on strengthening control over the transfer of scientific developments abroad, which was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in June this year. For scientific organizations and universities that perform state tasks for budget money, the new rules will start to apply from March 1, 2026, for all others - from September 1, 2028. Coordination with the FSB "will allow to strengthen control over the transfer of the results of scientific activity outside Russia, without violating the freedom of scientific creativity and without creating obstacles for organizations to engage in scientific activities," stated in the explanatory note to the law.

Before this control of foreign participation in scientific developments by the FSB approved in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The organization noted that this approach "meets the promotion of national interests and achievements of national science in the international arena." At the same time, Vedomosti sources in the Russian Academy of Sciences said that the most fruitful cooperation between Russian scientists is currently formed with colleagues from China and India.

The FSB earlier initiated mass arrests of scientists who were engaged in research in the field of hypersonic missiles. Criminal cases of "state treason" were brought against Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk, Dmitry Kolker, Valery Zvegintsev and Vladislav Galkin, who worked at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The first three were accused of passing classified data to China. "This is simply sabotage on the part of the authorities, and first of all it harms Russian science. By trying to maintain secrecy in military research, they are practically killing civilian science in these fields," noted physicist Yaroslav Kudryavtsev, who was forced to leave for France.

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