RUSSIAN SCIENCE:
New Rules on Foreign Contacts Resurrect Cold War-Era Distrust
Vladimir Pokrovsky and Elena Kokurina
MOSCOW--Is it a benign measure to protect Russian scientists from unwittingly revealing state secrets, or a chilling return to Soviet-style authoritarianism? Debate is swirling over a sweeping directive from the Russian Academy of Sciences that requires its 55,000 researchers to report any international activities and contacts to the academy's governing presidium.