Leonid Melamed, general director the state Russian Nanotechnology Corp.
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Nanotech Is Good, Whatever It Is
The overwhelming majority of Russians are convinced that nanotechnology can be of benefit to people, although a significant number of Russians have no idea about the accomplishments of nanotechnology. Eighty-two percent of respondents are sure that nanotechnology is useful, Interfax reports on an All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion (Russian abbreviation VTsIOM) poll conducted at the end of April in 46 regions of the country.
Only 2 percent of respondents had a negative op0inion of nanotechnology. The sociologists noted, however, that Russian citizens as a whole are poorly informed about what nanotechnology is. About half (51-48%) of respondents aged 18-44 had heard of it, and only about a quarter (24%) of elderly people had.
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