Well, if they want to play this game.
Russia to halt cooperation over International Space Station
Russia’s space director said on Saturday that the restoration of normal ties between partners at the ISS and other joint space projects would be possible only once western sanctions against Moscow were lifted.
Financial and cultural sanctions are the most well known.
These self-inflicted intellectual sanctions will be more long term
‘No hope for science in Russia’: the academics trying to flee to the west
The Russian government last week prohibited its scientists from taking part in international conferences or publishing research in international journals. Russian scientists say there is some appetite to ignore this, but there are reports that they are being blocked from publishing abroad anyway because some western academics are refusing to review research papers with Russian names on.
Science is considered a global endeavour with researchers partnering up with colleagues all over the world. Now many in Russia feel their work, shut off from international collaborations, will wither.
Dr James Ryan, a senior lecturer in modern Russian history at Cardiff University, says: “I’ve been in contact with academic friends in Russia. Some of them have already fled, and have no intention of returning any time soon. That’s the situation with many more.”
Republicans may sneer at experts, however the so-called “brain drain” has much longer detrimental effects. The transfer of knowledge to the next generation is impaired when your brightest are no longer there to pass it on. It’s cutting your nose off to spite your face.
This is I believe potentially the most damaging long term sanction of them all, worst of all for Russia, it is self-inflicted.