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Science 29 October 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5697, p. 795
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5697.795c
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Russian scientists worried about an impending retooling of the Russian Academy of Sciences got little reassurance from President Vladimir Putin this week. "No one is going to destroy the academy, this is out of the question," Putin told the first meeting of the Council for Science, Technologies, and Education in Moscow. But Russia's massive research organization "was created in different conditions, in a different country, in a different economic and political situation," he said, adding that the challenge now is to prevent it from being "disintegrated in the whirlwind of [current] events."

Last month, leaked documents that hinted at possible reforms--including funding cuts and institute closures--provoked vocal protests from Russian scientists (Science, 24 September, p. 1889). A formal plan, however, has yet to surface.

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