Czechs to pull out of Russian nuclear institute by end of 2022

Czechia will end its membership of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna near Moscow by the end of this year, the country’s Ministry of Education said on its website on Monday. In July Czech legislators voted to quit the organisation and the move was signed off on by the president and prime minister.

The step comes in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related international sanctions.

Czechoslovakia and later Czechia had been involved in the nuclear research institute for 66 years.