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Russian Academy gets temporary reprieve

The Russian Academy of Sciences, threatened with liquidation, has been granted a temporary reprieve. The Duma – the Russian Parliament – agreed today to postpone until October its final vote on a bill that some feel will mark the end of the academy, founded in 1724 by Peter the Great. 

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