Status of the NICA project at JINR Alexander Kovalenko, Vladimir Kekelidze, Richard Lednicky, Viktor Matveev, Igor Meshkov, Alexander Sorin, Grigory Trubnikov and Rumen Tsenov EPJ Web Conf., 191 (2018) 01003 Published online: 31 October 2018 DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201819101003