JINR

JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH In 2006 the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research - an international intergovernmental scientific research organisation - celebrates its 50th anniversary. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) was established through the Convention signed on 26 March 1956 in Moscow by representatives of eleven founding states to unite their scientific and material potential in order to study fundamental properties of matter. It was registered with the United Nations on 1 February 1957. The Institute is situated in Dubna 120 km from Moscow in the Russian Federation. To read more http://www.jinr.ru/JINR_50.htm