Doing Business in Russia. Котова К.П - 12 стр.

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unanimous that in this country it is difficult or very difficult to implement or put
to work the results of their research efforts (96 percent of all responses).
      Among the factors which can induce physicists to stay in the country,
they first of all point to proper labour remuneration (23.8 percent of all respon-
dents), then comes elevation of the status of science and sufficient funds for its
development (15.8 percent), and, further, economic and political stabilization
(26 percent of all answers).
      Two in three respondents lay great store by the country which sends out
an invitation. Precedence is accorded to the USA (80 percent of all respon-
dents), Germany ranks second (40 percent), followed by the United Kingdom
(31 percent), France (23 percent), Japan, Canada and Australia are mentioned
less frequently (20, 18, 15 percent respectively). The answers permit conclu-
sions to be drawn about a significant re-orientation in the existing flows of emi-
gration. Thus Israel figured only in 2 percent of the answers. As is known, in
the past few years the main flow of emigrants headed for Israel (up to 45 per-
cent of the total) and Germany (42 percent) and, in a less significant measure, to
the USA (6 percent). Emigration was originally distinctly “hnic”. Before long,
however, we believe, there will occur a redistribution of the flows in favour of
the USA, Canada, Australia and developed European countries. The proportion
of Russian, Ukrainians and Byelorussians, whose migration potential is fairly
high, will increase in the emigration structure.
      Some emigrants are not averse to working in the former socialist coun-
tries (15 percent) and even in the CIS republics (4 percent).
      The inquiry has thus shown that emigration proclivities are quite wide-
spread among physicists. Active young scientists seek to leave the country,
more often than not. Unlike many of those who prefer to stay on, they approve
of the market and political reforms unfolding in Russia, so their departure will
unquestionably narrow down and, what is worse, impoverish from the intellec-
tual viewpoint, the social base on which the reformers rely.