Putin promises funding boost for Russian science
MAR 15, 2012
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025939
Nature : Before his victory in Russia’s presidential election last week, Vladimir Putin outlined his plans for boosting Russian research in an article published in Vedomosti, a Russian-language business daily. As Nature‘s Quirin Schiermeier reports, Russia’s scientific output has fallen since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Its scientists now publish fewer papers than their Australian and Canadian scientists. To revive Russian science, Putin proposes to establish several new research universities in addition to Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, whose first full class will enroll in 2014. Putin also pledges to boost funding for research grants from the current annual total of 15 billion rubles ($500 million) to 25 billion rubles by 2018.
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