(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

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The publication produced by the experts of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences and international experts contains materials that provide a description of the manuscript collection at the Institute of Oriental Studies, representing more than 26, 000 manuscripts and 39, 000 lithographs.

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To test this idea, Dr Hebets turned to her make-up bag and brought out two shades of nail varnish (NailSlicks, midnight metal and bronze ice, as her paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quite properly describes in its materials and methods section, in case any other researcher wishes to replicate the experiment).

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