The institute should take a hard look at other forms of support for autocratic regimes. Seven or 8 years ago it happily took $300 million to set up a "Silicon Valley" run by the Russian government, although it has since experienced difficulties keeping faculty engaged (1) and more recently has "not much to show for it aside from a distant, windswept science park."

1. https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/09/15/another-foreign-faculty...

2. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/09/chill-out-russias-skolkovo...