MIT Cuts Ties With Research University It Helped Develop in Russia

In this April 3, 2017 file photo, students walk past the "Great Dome" atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass. Two prominent researchers are quitting MIT's Media Lab over revelations that the famed technology research hub and its director took money from Jeffrey Epstein after he'd served time for sex offenses involving girls and young women. Ethan Zuckerman, director of the lab's Center for Civic Media, said director Joi Ito had failed to disclose the deceased financier's funding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology incubator as well as investments Epstein made in Ito's personal venture capital fund, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has severed its long-standing ties with a research institute it helped found outside Moscow, citing the ongoing military offensive by Russia in Ukraine.

In a statement released on Feb. 25, MIT said it has notified the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) that the decade-long relationship between the two schools “must end” because of “unacceptable military actions against Ukraine by the Russian government.”