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The Future of Russian Science and Technology

Some Personal Impressions

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IN ACCEPTING THE IN ITATION to write on the future of Russian science and technology, I have taken the liberty of assessing the future by focusing on what I have learned through personal study, but mostly through my interactions for about two decades with Soviet, and now Russian scientists. These long sustained contacts have occurred at International conferences in Europe and China as well as in the U.S. and Russia.

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Krikorian, N.H. (2000). The Future of Russian Science and Technology. In: Hecker, S.S., Rota, GC. (eds) Essays on the Future. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0777-1_12

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