Lower-house votes in favour of Czech exit from Moscow’s Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

The Chamber of Deputies voted in favour of the Czech Republic’s exit from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), an international research centre for nuclear sciences that is located in the Moscow area, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday. The decision to leave the JINR is connected to the sanctions imposed on Russia. Before it becomes valid it will also have to be ratified by the Senate.

The JINR was set up in 1956 and its members are made up of states that were formerly allies of the Soviet Union or part of it.