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Science 30 August 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5279, pp. 1167 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5279.1167a
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News & Comment

Andrey Allakhverdov, Vladimir Pokrovsky

Moscow--The new head of Russian science, physicist Vladimir Fortov, has moved quickly to assert control over the country's far-flung research enterprise despite a recent government reshuffling that dismantled the ministry of science and technology and assigned its functions to a lower level state committee. In interviews with Science and a local radio station last week, Fortov made it clear that R&D policy will be set by the new committee and that the power struggle between the former science minister, Boris Saltykov, and the Russian Academy of Sciences is history.




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