A Renaissance For Russian Science

It's an emerging-market economy that still suffers from widespread poverty -- but somehow manages to produce more than 200,000 science grads a year. Students so well-trained in computer science, physics, mathematics, and engineering, that growing numbers are being snapped up by some of the world's biggest tech companies.

India? Wrong. China? Nope. The correct answer is Russia. "We continue to see very good students come out of the universities," says Steve Chase, president of Intel Russia. When it comes to writing complex computer programs, "the Russians are absolutely tops," he adds.

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