Status of the NICA project at JINR Vladimir Kekelidze, Alexandr Kovalenko, Rihard Lednicky, Viktor Matveev, Igor Meshkov, Alexandr Sorin and Grigory Trubnikov EPJ Web Conf., 138 (2017) 01027 Published online: 27 March 2017 DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201713801027