ARMAMENT, MIGRATION, AND BRAIN DRAIN: THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS IN RUSSIA

Contents

Remarks on sampling and methods
The MIC in St. Petersburg
The personal situation
Variants in behaviour in a crisis situation
Those who do not want to go abroad
Professional opportunities abroad
Is a brain drain from the MIC realistic? Slow down and habituation factors

Approach
The situation in the academic institutions as a push factor
Principal types of behaviour in crisis situations
From integration to new patterns of behaviour
"Swinging"-migration: brain drain or maintenance of talents?
The crisis in Soviet science, the mentality of a typical Soviet scientist
Outlook for the future

Methods. Instructions to the interviewers
Quotations from some of the interviews. The MIC-specialists. The present situation in Russia
Working and living conditions abroad
Scientists in academic institutions. The present situation in Russia
Working and living conditions abroad