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Russian science: Breaking up is hard to do

Nature volume 449, pages 536–537 (2007)Cite this article

Economist and former science minister Boris G. Saltykov sees opportunity for change and innovation in Russia.

The fiftieth anniversary of the launch of the first Sputnik satellite reminds us of a time when two great powers — the United States and the Soviet Union — began an exhausting technological race. This was the symbolic beginning of a 'golden age' of Soviet science (see page 542) during the 1960s and 1970s, with a long line of Russian achievements in space, aviation and nuclear physics, the creation of unique research instruments, including the world's first tokamak — a fusion reactor — and world-class facilities, such as the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna.

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  1. Boris G. Saltykov is president of the Russian House for International Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Briusov per. 11, 125009 Moscow, Russia.,

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