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New recommendations from Russia's Ministry of Science and Higher Education instruct scientists to seek advance permission to meet with foreign colleagues and to report on those meetings, The New York Times reported. The recommendations say that scientists should not attend meetings with foreign counterparts without another Russian scientist present and say the head of the scientist's institute should submit a report afterward with an “exhaustive account of the topics discussed.”
Scientists have denounced the Soviet-style restrictions and characterized them as meaningless and absurd. Many say that Russian science cannot flourish without vibrant interaction with foreign colleagues.
The ministry said the guidelines are “advisory in character” and intended primarily “to track the growth of international links.” While they are called recommendations, heads of scientific institutes are required to take them into account, as are those at institutes that work with secret material.
