A major research institution in Russia is “deeply embedded” in the Russian military and the country’s military-industrial complex. That is the claim of a report by particle physicist Tetiana Berger-Hrynova , who argues that the activities of scientists belonging to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in international collaborations should be limited as it poses a security threat to Europe (arXiv:2603.21896).

The JINR is an international research centre for nuclear science with 5500 staff members and prior to 2022 over 1000 scientists from JINR-collaborating organizations visited Dubna each year.

Berger-Hrynova, who is based at the CNRS’s Annecy Particle Physics Laboratory in France, told Physics World that her research was triggered by an article in December 2022 in the New York Times , which found that Kh-101 missiles – a Russian air-launched cruise missile – were produced in Dubna.

“I found that JINR scientists have played a critical role in developing Dubna into a major centre for Russia’s…