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President Vladimir Putin shakes a robot’s hand at a telecommunications company in Perm, Russia. Credit: Alexei Druzhinin/TASS via Getty

In the twilight of a winter’s afternoon on the outskirts of Moscow, a disc-shaped building stands out against dreary tower blocks and largely vacant car parks. This avant-garde architecture — called simply the Disk — hosts several research institutes, including the Russian Quantum Centre, a private institute founded in 2010. Inside its curved, gleaming halls, physicist Denis Kurlov describes how the centre attracted him back to Russia, more than seven years after he left his native country to work abroad.

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Nature 579, 332-336 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00753-7

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  • Correction 25 March 2020: An earlier version of this feature gave the wrong name for the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and incorrectly stated that the Russian Quantum Centre was part of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

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