Garry Max, Of course Geim left Russia in 1990! This is significant. This was the beginning of ten years of catastrophe for Russia. The scientific bases of the society was systematically destroyed and great scientists left the country to find universities with funding and proper equipments to do their research. During the Soviet Union, despite the politicization of Physics, the Soviet Union was in the leading edge of scientific discoveries and Soviet Scientists won number of Nobel Prize for Physics. Today, Russia needs to rethink backing up primarily innovasions driven by summerism and corporate drive. These are two ideas behind President Mevedev's modernization project. This is bad model for Russia. Instead, Russia needs to invest in basic research and development in education where young students can be trained in science and engineering. That does not means that commercial oriented innovation centers are not good ideas. However, today, Russia has the financial capacity to attract back their senior scientists it lost during the dark days of the 1990s. These researchers have created new lives for themselves but they can come back to Russia part of their time and collaborate with researchers based in Russia. Now, about your comment of the citizenship of Geim andNovoselov. These men are Russians, will always be Russians. Remember how after the end of WWII so many Germans with Germans names, born, raised and educated in Germany won Nobel Prizes in Phsysics for the United States! Do you think these were Germany Nobel Prizes or American Nobel Prizes? At any case, the Cold War is over and the U.S global scientific dominance and also political culture have started to decline. The British and Dutch know better. They know that Geim/Novoselove are scientific high end immigrants that their mother tongue and moral sensibilities is Russian.