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RT @TechCrunch: Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward http://t.co/exVzjVFt0n by @mikebutcher
May 31, 2013
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Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward
During the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union built up a network of "Naukograd" or "Science Cities". These were state-created clusters of scientists working on technologies that could help it compete with the West, especially in the field of nuclear weapons and space explo..