Financing Russian Science

The financing of Russian science is a problem that has been written about quite frequently and voluminously and already long ago become a triviality in the sequence of countless difficulties of the transitional period. Most arguments and appeals boil down to the premise that the state must improve its financing of science, that the scientific-technical potential is being catastrophically reduced, and that the country may simply fall into a state of technological dependence on the leading industrial powers. In approximately 1992, the authors of such forecasts began to warn that, if prompt measures were not taken, Russian science would completely perish in six months, or a year at most. The paradox is that science (abridged, condensed, and constrained) is still alive. Some of its directions are even developing. Proof of this is demonstrated by the attempt of the foreign community to collaborate with Russian scholars, as well as the high marks scored by much Russian research.