http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-fix-for-russian-science-isnt-taking-hold/2011/11/28/gIQAMJD99O_story.html ...and I could not stop myself form leaving an extended comment there, which barely fits into 3000 characters limit. As a person who spent 10 years (1990-2000) working in the Russian Academy (moreover, exactly in the Pushchino Research Center) and another 10 years (2001-2011) in US universities