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The rush to cut academic and research links with Russia and Belarus is picking up speed, as more western governments and organisations move to isolate the countries scientifically. The Netherlands announced today it is freezing all research and education ties with Russia and Belarus over the Russian-led attack on Ukraine.
Governments, universities and individual academics across Europe over are being forced to choose whether to cut research ties with Russia after Moscow shocked the scientific community with its assault on Ukraine. Germany, Russia’s second biggest research collaborator after the US, has said it will halt all scientific cooperation, while the UK is reviewing its links.
When you are told "we are all in the same boat", be suspicious. In fact, 205 years after the survivors of the Frigate of Medusa shipwreck were reduced to cannibalism to survive, "we are all on Medusa's raft".
The low level of Covid-19 vaccination in the Global South is ethically unacceptable and risks prolonging the pandemic. The patent waiver in discussion since 2020 within the World Trade Organization (WTO) will not solve these vaccination bottlenecks in the short-term.