First time I heard of those foxes was 20-25 years ago. And I kind of believed that Russians terminated the project because the fox's coats went bad, and it was not profitable for the farm to keep the beasts. But may be the scientists kept those foxes privately, or some Western Europeans repeated the experiment.

They sure did - I mean there are many papers on dogs origins, and I think the genome is fully sequenced by now.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16219789