{"id":120886,"date":"2023-11-02T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120886"},"modified":"2023-11-02T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:19:21","slug":"vladimir-putin-running-out-of-scientists-as-russias-brightest-minds-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/world-news\/vladimir-putin-running-out-of-scientists-as-russias-brightest-minds-flee\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin running out of scientists as Russia’s brightest minds flee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vladimir Putin has witnessed a steady decline in the number of scientists training and staying in Russia, a close ally to the Russian leader has revealed.<\/p>\n

Security official Nikolai Patrushev noted that the scientific sector has lost around 25 percent of its members over the past two decades, leaving the country in a rut when it comes to becoming technologically independent.<\/p>\n

The brain drain has only intensified in the aftermath of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a retreat in the Siberian city of Tomsk, Petrushev said: “A serious obstacle to achieving technological independence is the shortage of qualified scientific, engineering and labour personnel.<\/p>\n

“The total number of personnel engaged in research and development in Russia has decreased by a quarter over the past 20 years.”<\/p>\n

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Following the invasion nearly two years ago, hundreds of Russians fled to neighbouring countries to escape conscription.<\/p>\n

Finland, Georgia, Mongolia and Kazhakstan were among the nations that experienced a surge in migration from Russia in the months after the war started, with many citing their opposition to the conflict as a reason for leaving.<\/p>\n

The vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences was quoted in May claiming that Russia had lost approximately 50,000 scientists since 2017.<\/p>\n

An investigation from the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta earlier this year identified 270 academics from top Moscow and St. Petersburg universities who had fled Russia since the war in Ukraine started.<\/p>\n

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