Belarus Science Official Seeks Compensation for Brain Drain; Japanese Students Caught in Cellphone Cheating Scam

The president of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has a message for the West, which has been only too happy to employ the country's dwindling cadre of professors and scientists: You owe us.

Mikhail Myasnikovich, the academy's president, proposes that Western organizations, as well as the countries in which they operate, in some way compensate Belarus for the brain drain that has continued steadily since independence in 1991.

"Right now it is too early to speak about

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