Adriaan van der Meer commented: “This Report highlights successful innovation and the real jobs created through ISTC’s important contribution to economic diversification in Russia and the CIS”. Olga Vorontsova added: “Sarov, a city of over 22,000 scientists, engineers, technicians and support staff, faces a real challenge as it transfers the skills and expertise of its significant science community away from former weapons development and toward R&D for peaceful innovation vital to the economic well-being of Russia today. Working with ISTC enables the science teams in Sarov to engage with international partners and collaborators in a joint effort to create innovations of benefit to mankind as a whole”.

Fourteen media attended the press conference, assuring ISTC broad coverage. The Moscow Times, Interfax, Itar-Tass and Lenta.ru represented mainstream media and as for the specialized media, Ecology and Life (Экология и жизнь), Science World (В мире науки) and Energy Market (Энергорынок)also attended. Articles were published in 21 magazines and Internet sites.

ISTC has worked with over 980 science institutes of the former Soviet Union and engaged over 70,000 scientists in non-defense related international science projects since the organization started its activities in 1994. ISTC has supported 2,600 R&D projects since inception, with 147 projects receiving funding in the amount of $49.2 million in 2007 alone.