December 14, 2001

For Russia's Universities, a Decade of More Freedom and Less Money

By BRYON MacWILLIAMS

Facilities languish and top scholars leave, but students have unprecedented options

It used to be that scholars here could be set for life. One's education defined who he or she was in society.

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