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Nature 408, 625 (7 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35047227

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Rays of hope in eastern Europe

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Although much of Russia struggles to survive, other former Soviet countries are building new research systems with varying success. A critical need is to avoid western domination of their programmes.

Ten years can be a short time in politics, at least in politics of the dimensions that shook central and eastern Europe in the 1990s. For scientists, much changed literally overnight when communism fell.