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Nature 431, 887 (21 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/431887a; Published online 20 October 2004
Russians fear privatization of state labs
Bryon MacWilliams
Senior officials in Moscow are attempting to reassure Russian scientists about details of a planned reform, under which many hundreds of the country's state research institutes could lose their government funding.According to a document leaked to the Russian Academy of Sciences last month, the government is focusing on the 450 institutes run by the academy, as well as nearly 2,000 other laboratories run by the government.
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