U.S. Investigating Universities Over russian Donations

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U.S. officials have asked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to turn over documents regarding the university’s contacts with foreign governments and donations from foreign sources, including those coming from russia, China, and Saudi Arabia, rferl.org reports.

The Massachusetts university was asked specifically by the U.S. Department of Education for documentation related to contacts with the moscow-based software firm Kaspersky Lab and the Skolkovo Foundation, a moscow-area project that MIT had a multimillion-dollar contract with.

The University of Maryland received a similar demand from the Education Department, in letters dated September 26, and published on November 21 in the U.S. government’s official repository.

“The ministry is concerned that in your reports all receipts and contracts of foreign origin might not be fully covered,” the letter said.

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