Scholars will hold a rally in Moscow in support of fund “Dynasty” – RBC

The founder of the Foundation “Dynasty” Dmitry Zimin (foreground) at the award ceremony “political education»

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Moscow Mayor’s Office agreed to a rally “For science and education” by 2 thousand. Parties to be held June 6 at Suvorov Square, said a member of the RBC the organizing committee of the shares Leo Biryukov. According to him, the organizers have received so far only verbal permission from the city authorities. The application was served on the organizers of the march from Nikitsky Boulevard with a rally at Pushkin Square, but the mayor’s office in the march along this route refused, Biryukov said.

On Facebook shares in its involvement at the time of publication of the article confirmed more than 700 people. Among the organizers of the meeting – deputy director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Mikhail Gelfand, co-founder of the community “Dissernet” Andrew Zayakin, Senior Researcher HSE Alexei Zakharov, school teacher “intellectual” Alexey Makarov and other scientists and representatives of the scientific community. “We are outraged by the way the authorities handled the Foundation” Dynasty “, this situation has provoked our rally,” – says Zayakin, a former Fellow of the Fund on May 25, the Ministry of Justice recognized as a foreign agent. Its founder Dmitry Zimin said that he would not appeal the decision in court and stop its funding.

According Zayakina, the rally will be dedicated not only to “Dynasty”, but the whole policy of the authorities in the sphere of science and education . “Contact us representatives of the” Dynasty “and asked for a meeting not only associating with them”, – says the organizer. Himself Zimin told RBC that is tired of mentions of his name in the media and declined to comment.

Protesters also plan to protest against the law on foreign agents, common textbooks on school subjects and to require an increase in funding of science and education by cuts in military spending. We invite to participation of political parties especially the organizers will not be, said Biryukov. On its own initiative supports the action politician Alexei Navalny.

«This is the right theme of protest – we are against ignorance, against the fact that any policy in the country, including in the sphere of science, determined Chechen Mujahideen and motorcyclists in leather pants. Become the mainstream in the state semi-literate people, the official policy was obscurantism. Political confrontation takes place not between supporters of European and Third Way, started the confrontation against the ignorant educated people “, – he told RBC Navalny, noting that the call for supporters to come to the meeting on his blog. According to him, the democratic coalition, formed on the basis of the party RPR-Parnassus to participate in the elections will not take a special decision on participation, “everything is coming.” At a rally going, and the former leader of the federal Civil Committee “Civic Platform” Irina Prokhorova, she said RBC.

On the same square at the monument to Suvorov in Moscow in the autumn and winter of 2014 took action on education and health. Then Muscovites protest against reforms metropolitan hospitals and schools. The largest stocks were held on October 11 (according to the organizers, the rally was attended by up to 1.5 thousand. People) and 2 November (organizers estimated the number of shares in the 6 th. People).

The Foundation “Dynasty” – the first in modern Russia the nonprofit Family Social Investment Fund, created by the president of the company “VimpelCom” Dmitry Zimin in 2002 to support and promote domestic science. In 2014, the program budget of the Fund amounted to 352 million rubles. Of these, 172.4 million rubles. fund spent on program direction “Science and Education”, 75.6 million rubles. – The direction of “Popularization of Science and educational activities.” In total since the founding budget “Dynasty” was 2.324 billion rubles. (Including administrative costs).

In the two weeks before turning on the fund in the register 10 academicians and 18 corresponding members of the protest against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Club on July 1, “appealed to the Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov requested not to include Charitable Foundation “Dynasty” in the list of the NGO inoagento. ” In protest against the recognition of a foreign agent Fund from May 26 activists carried out pickets near the building of the Ministry of Justice on Zhitnaya street. The literary community issued an open letter in support of the Fund. The letter was signed, in particular, writers Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov, Ulitskaya and others.