More than $ 2 million: IAEA finances the projects of Russian scientists in occupied Crimea - "Radio Liberty"

Officially, the agency seems to recognize Crimea Ukrainian, but this does not prevent the allocation of funds for the work of scientists. Investigators of the portal "Radio Liberty" told about the details of the IAEA and Presidential regime of President Vladimir Putin. Journalists have accessed scientific research agreements that are funded in part or completely at the IAEA. In documents, articles and reports, Sevastopol is called the Russian city.

In addition, the agency allocated money for a training, which will be joined by representatives of the occupied Donetsk region, signed as citizens of the Russian Federation. Some projects began in 2014, after the hybrid invasion of the Russians and after the annexation of Crimea. Some continued even after the start of a full -scale invasion.

After Radio Liberty's appeal, the IAEA commented on the situation: it recognized that the representatives of the agency "inadvertently" called Sevastopol in Russian. In addition, it turned out that the percentage of citizens of the aggressor country in the leading positions of the agency did not decrease: the reason-to get rid of the Russians needed the request of the Russian Federation, is specified in the article.

The article lists three projects of Russian scientists who were embodied with the help of money and with the participation of IAEA experts. Project 1. The IAEA Research Agreement No: 20867/R0, concluded in 2016. The purpose of studying the pollution of water in the Black Sea was to study. At the same time, the documentation and articles written on the basis of the study list the scores of analyzes, and among them - as if Russian Sevastopol.

The Contractor is a Joint Nuclear Research Institute (OIAD), located in Dubna. Project 2. The contract between IAEA and the Russian Federation IAEA Research Contract No: 22555, concluded in 2018 and completed in September 2023. Financing - 60 thousand euros. The purpose is to study the migration of birds and the spread of bird influenza with the use of isotope analysis. Some of the feathers were collected in the occupied Crimea, signed as Russian.

Contractor - Federal Center for Animal Health (FCOZZH) of the Russian Federation. Project 3. On October 21, 2024, the Regional Training Course of Physics and Brahitrapy began in Moscow (Brachitherapy - a type of radiotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer). The IAEA supports a training, the cost of which is $ 2 million. Among the participants, as the journalists found out, two citizens from the occupied Donbass.

The document obtained by investigators clearly states that they arrived from the Russian Federation. "It is a disorder. I know from sources from our diplomatic mission [in Vienna], which was officially but unspokenly decided to collapse all trainings in the territory of Russia, which are paid from the IAEA budget.

Sponsoring such studies is a bad story," he summed up Olga Kosharna situation, extent of the State Inspectorate of Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine, Nuclear Energy Expert and co -founder of the NGO "Anti -Crisis Expert Nuclear Center of Ukraine". At the same time, the IAEA explained that research on the territory of Crimea is "technical", and the agency continues to consider temporarily occupied territories in part of Ukraine.

At the same time, the Kosharna reminded that in the third year of the war the Russians continue to be the IAEA Secretariat and the Council of Managers, also finances 1. 8%of the budget (US - 25%, China - 15%, Germany - 6%). It should be noted that on March 3, 2024, Focus wrote about the visit of the Secretary General of Magra Raphael Grossi to the Russian Federation. The official had a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin.