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How to rebuild Russian science

01 Jan 1999

Russia's recent economic crisis has hurt the country's scientists. Vladilen Letokhov traces the cause of the current problems and outlines what the West can do to help

Transforming the Soviet Union’s highly centralized communist regime into an open, democratic

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Vladilen Letokhov is head of the Laser Spectroscopy Department at the Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia
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