While the Russian powers that be are busy advertising their proposed investment into nano-technologies, Professors Andre Geim and Doctors Kostya Novoselov and Leonid Ponomarenko - all Russian-born - from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester have built the world's smallest transistor - one atom thick and 10 atoms wide - out of a material that could one day replace silicon.
Once world's leader in fundamental and applied science, nowadays Russia is an "energy superpower". Translated from the Kremlin's beaurocratic newspeak, that stands for something like Saudi Arabia - happy to buy diamond-encrusted limos and golden toilet bowls off the oil riches while investing nothing in modernizing society, research or technological base.
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