The Scientific Elite of Russia Is Pushing Back Against the Prosecutions of Scientists for Doing Science

Scientists are standing up, they're writing open letters, petitioning local and national officials to try and get Maslov and his codependent defendants freed. So although it's not exactly the sort of thing which is going to bring crowds out onto the streets but nonetheless it is striking that the intellectual and scientific elite of Russia are doing what they can to highlight these cases and push back. And is the regime receptive? Well look on the one hand the answer is obviously it needs the output of these scientists. But at the same time unfortunately the impact of the war in Ukraine, the sanctions and the general sort of alienation of Russia from the rest of the world means that at the moment security apparatus are very