Just two days after Russia invaded Ukraine the leading science negotiator of the European Parliament said that the European Union should cut all scientific ties with Russia but the fact is that 5 months have passed and what I really see is the percentage of joint publications with Russian universities not showing any kind of reduction (in some cases even shows an increase). See below a survey on the Scopus database about the countries that have more joint publications with authors affiliated with Russian institutions in the years 2021 and 2022:
USA………………5%…. 6%
Germany………5%…. 6%
China……………3%…. 5%
UK…………………3%…. 4%
France…………..3%…. 3%
Italy……………….3%…. 3%
Spain…………….2%…. 2%
Poland………….2%…. 2%
India……………..2%…. 3%
Netherlands…1%…. 2%
Japan……………1%…. 2%
Switzerland….1%…. 2%
Canada…………1%…. 2%
Czech Rep……1%…. 2%
Australia………1%…. 2%
Sweden……….1%…. 2%
PS – After just a few days ago the Russian Embassy in Switzerland got furious over a meme in which Putin appears as a clown today the Russian Embassy in Portugal (the country that hates Putin the most just after Poland and Ukraine) has just threatened a well-known Portuguese singer (Pedro Abrunhosa) who in his recent concert told Putin “go fuck yourself“. https://portugal.postsen.com/news/66225/Shameful-screams-Russian-Embassy-criticizes-Pedro-Abrunhosa.html How hard can it be for universities in Western countries to have the courage to do the same?