... the media. The issues at hand have remained unchanged for several decades, raising difficult questions with no easy answers. What are some possible ways out of this vicious circle of problems, and what are the priorities for the future development of Russian science – two questions posed to Mikhail Mikhailovich Butusov, Doctor of physics and mathematics, Director of research and technologies at Activil Corporation and an expert in scientific research commercialization and the restructuring of science ...
... papers with foreign scholars and scientists in leading foreign journals. Additionally, long-term contracts with foreign professors, who are frequently published in foreign peer-reviewed journals, could help Russia become more internationalized.
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Russia’s education system has the potential to become an effective foreign policy instrument. This soft power instrument should focus as a priority on potential students from post-Soviet countries. Later, should we succeed in implementing the objectives ...
... reform of Russia’s educational system, after all, it is a subject he has been studying for over 50 years. MIT professor and scholar at the Russian Studies Center in Harvard, Graham has published almost 20 books on education in the Soviet Union and Russia including Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform, in 2008.
Graham has also been involved as a consultant in negotiations between MIT and Skolkovo on forming a partnership to build a research center in Russia. Graham is very critical of the current state ...
