The Death of Big Science in Russia  

From 1987 to 1991 the largest construction project in the Soviet Union was neither a new hydroelectric station nor an oil pipeline. It was the world’s largest proton synchrotron accelerator in Protvino, a small science town about a hundred kilometers …



Russia: Economic Reform or Catastrophe?  

Ukraine recently stopped supplying food to the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. Krasnoyarsk Atomgrad, which has an underground store for radioactive waste, responded by refusing to take spent nuclear fuel from Ukraine. New Tallin port, newly completed to serve the whole …