Viva China,: (Russia

The US National Science Foundation ( NSF ) published statistics on the dynamics of scientific and technological development in 1995–2009.
China caught up with the United States by number of researchers (~ 1.5 million).
In Russia, on the contrary, there is a decrease in the number of research workers: in 1995 there were about 600,000, and now there are only about 450,000. In China, the number of scientists each year increases by almost 9%, and in Russia - by 2%.



From the graphs it is clear that the citation index of scientific works, one of the most important indicator is decreasing in both Russia and Ukraine. A kind of a good innovative indicator of the difference between the words of the rulers and their deeds.

Update: below Andrey_Rogovsky has thrown the idea to compare with oil prices.

The last picture is taken from LJ muacre .
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And for the post itself thanks to the elements .