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MIT Cuts Ties With Russia Tech Center in Protest of Invasion

The Rogers Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. — The Rogers Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Photographer: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg

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Carey Goldberg and

Denise Pellegrini

February 26, 2022, 3:43 PM UTCUpdated onFebruary 26, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is ending a decade-long collaboration with one of Russia’s leading technology institutes in response to the nation’s invasion of Ukraine.

The university “is exercising its right to terminate the MIT Skoltech Program,” according to an announcement on MIT’s homepage for the partnership. “This step is a rejection of the actions of the Russian government in Ukraine.”