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Many Russian scientists and university graduates left Russia for Europe or United States; this migration is known as a "brain drain". In the 2000s, on the wave of a new economic boom, the situation in the Russian science and technology has improved, and the government launched a campaign to encourage modernisation and innovation.
Columbia University - Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies; Dalian University of Foreign Languages - The Center for Russian Studies; Georgetown University - Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies; Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies (formerly Russian Research Center) [1]
Still, Tsiolkovsky supported the Bolshevik revolution, and eager to promote science and technology, the new Soviet government elected him a member of the Socialist Academy in 1918. [16]: 1–2, 8 He worked as a high school mathematics teacher until retiring in 1920 at the age of 63. In 1921, he received a lifetime pension. [16]: 1–2, 8
The Russian oven or Russian stove is a unique type of oven/furnace that first appeared in the early 15th century. The Russian oven is usually placed in the centre of the izba, a traditional Russian dwelling, and plays an immense role in the traditional Russian culture and way of life. It is used both for cooking and domestic heating and is ...
Nowadays Prof. Postnikov is working as a chief researcher at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology named after S.I. Vavilov Russian Academy of Sciences, a director of Imago Mundi International Journal on the History of Cartography, the expert at Harley Fellowships, co-editor of the collective monography The History of ...
The Heart of Texas Facebook page, whose link to Russia was first reported by Business Insider, organized a rally at noon on May 21 at the Islamic Da'wesh Center in Houston, Texas, to "Stop ...
Science and technology in the Soviet Union served as an important part of national politics, practices, and identity. From the time of Lenin until the dissolution of the USSR in the early 1990s, both science and technology were intimately linked to the ideology and practical functioning of the Soviet state and were pursued along paths both ...
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