That's right. The "Skoltech" program was one such initiative, basically taking hundreds of millions from the Skolkovo Foundation (run by Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, a member of Putin’s inner circle) in 2010 in return for setting up the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology near Moscow. Despite getting a lot of heat for this, MIT kept it going:
The university in 2019 signed a five-year extension of its lucrative partnership with the Russian technology research institute, which has long raised espionage fears among foreign policy experts and the FBI. The extension came just three months after the federal government announced it was investigating MIT’s compliance with reporting requirements for the Russian money it had received in connection with the project.
The article notes MIT only ended the cooperation after the invasion of Ukraine.
The university in 2019 signed a five-year extension of its lucrative partnership with the Russian technology research institute, which has long raised espionage fears among foreign policy experts and the FBI. The extension came just three months after the federal government announced it was investigating MIT’s compliance with reporting requirements for the Russian money it had received in connection with the project.
The article notes MIT only ended the cooperation after the invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/02/25/mit-abandons...
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