§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what assistance the United Kingdom has offered the Russian Scientific Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology in Moscow.
§ Mr. WaldegraveBritish scientists have long had contacts with scientists at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow, which comes under the Russian Academy of Sciences department of general and technical chemistry. These contacts have developed through assistance for Russian science funded by the Office of Science and Technology and administered through the Royal Society. As an example, Dr. Rakitin of the Moscow institute was awarded a three-month Kapitza fellowship beginning in November 1992 at the department of chemistry, Imperial college, London, in order to initiate United Kingdom/Russia collaboration in the synthesis and chemistry of heterocyclic systems of great importance to the fine chemicals industry.