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Article: GLASNOST DESCRIBED AS GIVING SOVIET SCIENCE NEW VITALITY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 15, 1988
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Glasnost is having the same energizing effect on Soviet
science as it is having on economic and political institutions, a
leading Soviet scientist said yesterday in Boston.
Internally, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's push for
openness means creating opportunities for young scientists,
decentralizing research activities and ensuring that scientific
breakthroughs are applied to industry, said Konstantin V. Frolov,
vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, during an address
yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Externally, "it means we can inform our society more about the
positive results of cooperation with the United ...