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Abstract: Scientific systems in the Former Soviet Union face important challenges that are crucial for their future. In 1990s all post-soviet states have lost a large part of their S&T potentials, but for some countries these losses seem really irreversible. Dynamics of main indicators and content analysis of these changes confirm the hypothesis about the collapse of S&T systems in Central Asian and Transcaucasian states. Deterioration of the situation in science in Russia and Ukraine, the biggest post-Soviet states, is also evident. Key problem for the successful restructuring of the scientific systems in these countries is that demand for domestic R&D is exceptionally low as a result of deep recession and negative structural changes and simplification of production in the national economies. At the same time, international contacts of research institutes and individual scientists, as well as possibilities of entering new foreign markets are very limited. Long with other negative phenomena, notably aging of S&T manpower and brain drain processes, this makes possible to consider scenario of further decline of S&T systems in the post-Soviet states as the most probable one. |
