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World Service,29 Nov 2001,23 mins

Post-Soviet science - USSR

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A look at what has happened to scientific research in the former Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet Union saw the collapse of many systems, not least scientific research. Science had been the bedrock of the military industrial complex throughout the Soviet era, and consumed a large slice of the nation's budget.

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