September 22, 2006
Russia Takes Over Science Academy
The Russian Academy of Sciences is about to lose not only its autonomy but possibly its name as well.
The country's 282-year-old citadel of fundamental research would be stripped of the power to select its own leaders and to allocate funds under legislative revisions that were approved this month at a closed-door meeting of the Russian cabinet.
The academy could also be renamed the State Academy of Sciences, a change that appears to herald the emergence of the government as the
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