The great Russian brain drain. At least 270 scientists and top university professors have resigned and left Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine — Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Last week, Moscow’s prestigious Higher School of Economics (HSE) dismissed one of its founders — Igor Lipsits, Doctor of Economics. The scientist has lived abroad in the last three years and has repeatedly chastised the Kremlin for its aggression against Ukraine. There are hundreds or even thousands of similar stories out there. Novaya-Europe has studied open sources to identify 270 university staffers, including professors and heads of institutes, who severed ties with Russia in the past 18 months. Let’s take a look at the toll the war is taking on Russian science.

Half of the Russian scientists who left the country publicly opposed the invasion of Ukraine: they posted online and signed an open letter against the war. In the past 18 months, at least 21 Russian economists, 27 computer scientists, 34 physicists and mathematicians, 15 biologists, and 17 philologists left the country.