Ten classrooms, four continents The Karpinsky Institute opened its tenth "Karpinsky class" in Mongolia this month, closing a three-year expansion that has taken #Russian geologists into more than a dozen countries. The model is simple. #Russia sets up a scientific centre in a friendly state, staffs it with its own experts, and trains local personnel in geology and mineral resource management according to Russian methodology. Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan