FORMER SOVIET UNION:
Cautious Optimism, But Progress Is Slow
Richard Stone
LONDON--After suffering a precipitous decline in financial support over the
past decade, science in Russia and the Ukraine is showing signs of recovery,
experts agreed at a meeting here last week. Scientific ranks have stabilized
after a long period of brain drain, graduate student enrollment in the
natural sciences is on the rise, and there's even hope that some top Russian
and Ukrainian researchers will repatriate to their homelands.