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Russia’s modernization is viewed in the context of global modernization processes. Among the drawbacks of the current government policy in this sphere, the author identifies explicit underfunding of science and educational institutions, whose development is replaced with their permanent “reforming.”

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Original Russian Text © Yu.D. Granin, 2010, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 11, pp. 993–999.

Yurii Dmitrievich Granin, Dr. Sci. (Philos.), is a leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Philosophy.

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Granin, Y.D. Modernizing Russia. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 80, 534–539 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331610060092

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