More on Russian Academia
Lyndon at Scraps of Moscow adds to the MGU controversy with a comment on the matter from an alumnus. He also rightly puts the matter into the larger context of the Russian government’s battle with the Russian Academy of Sciences and their future direction.
The collapse of the Russian academy is one of the worst outcomes of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many of the brightest, especially in the hard sciences, have left for better opportunity and pay resulting in a severe brain drain. The result has been a loss of an estimated $30 billion to the Russian economy.
The soft sciences have suffered worse. The lack of funding in the form of pay and research, has left many to either make deals with Western publishers (i. e. Yale University Press’ deal with the Russian State ..read more
