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Maybe because the country sees the absurdity in paying for the research and then paying again to read the results.

They already are, effectively, through publicly-funded universities.

Why not create a new journal that would be free for all? If the subscription journals provide no value I don't see the problem.

There's plenty of such journals out there (commonly referred to as open access journals).

But popular subscription journals are seen as crown jewels for researchers and readers are unwilling to pay ridiculous amounts of money to read a paper or two, so sci-hub remains extremely popular.

As a scientist, it is of my opinion that this is rather absurd. Research should be viewed as being for the betterment of humanity and furthering our knowledge, not personal prestige

Unfortunately ones career is based on personal prestige in this field.

As a former scientist, the depths of academia I have visited and what I have seen had better not reach the light of day.

But would it be indexed by Scopus, which is owned by Elsevier? Some research grants might require researcher's past findings to be indexed in Scopus.

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