Russia removes obstacles to projects
Stone, R.
Science 279(5358): 42
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0091-7729 Document Number: 417235
Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin appears to have ended two long-running battles that had threatened major international projects in astrophysics and seismology. At the tenth meeting of the Russian-U.S. Commission on Economics and Technology, held recently in Washington, D.C., Chernomyrdin pledged that the Russian government would withdraw an earlier threat to sell 60 tons of gallium at the heart of a neutrino detector in the south of the country. In addition, Russian science minister Vladimir Fortov revealed that a new decree will end customs problems that have dogged a global seismic monitoring network operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Geological Survey, and Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, a nonprofit university consortium.