By Anne Thompson

Photograph by John Curtis

For much of the 20th century, Russian medicine was cut off from the scientific community by the isolation of the Cold War. As it begins in earnest to reconnect, a Yale collaboration in Tatarstan is helping to break down old bariers. A letter from Kazan.
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By John Curtis

Photograph by John Curtis

A dozen years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is a focal point of the world’s fastest-growing AIDS epidemic. Now Russian scientists and their counterparts at Yale are working to stem the tide. A letter from St. Petersburg.
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