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Thursday, 20 June, 2002, 13:34 GMT 14:34 UK
Russian brain drain tops half a million
State support for science has dwindled since 1991
A Russian trade union official has said that more than half a million scientists and computer programmers have left the country since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The chairman of the unions represented at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Viktor Kalinushkin, told a news conference in Moscow that most of them were finding well-paid jobs in the United States, Europe and Japan.
Mr Kalinushkin said physicists, biologists, chemists and computer programmers were in particularly high demand. He said Russian-speaking programmers in the USA were responsible for developing 30% of Microsoft products.
Mr Kalinushkin said there were currently two groups of scientists in Russia - young people under 30 who could be expected to leave to work abroad and an older generation around the age of 50, who usually remain behind. "Between 500,000 and 800,000 Russian scientists have left on long-term mission abroad in the past 10 years," he said. "Almost none of them have returned." Japan, the USA, the UK, Canada, France and Germany were the main beneficiaries, he said. |
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