President Putin heard scientists, asked to be relieved from their Fano – Moskovsky Komsomolets

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Leading the way – or the elimination of unnecessary add-ons, or the death of the Russian science. At the time of writing this note on a petition addressed to President Vladimir Putin has signed more than 150 most respected representatives of Russian science. Late in the afternoon on Monday, the president came the answer: he heard scientists and should analyze the situation. “MK” with scholars versed in the requirements set forth in the Open Letter to the President, published on the website of the Company’s research.

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The authors begin with a reminder letter about the crisis in Russian science began long before the reform, since the beginning of the 1990s. The poor financial situation complemented more and more new “reform”. The result of this is often meaningless, state officials initiatives becomes a sequential degradation.

The reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in 2013, scientists called “a fatal blow».

As most ridiculous new draft ” effective management “of Fano (to him in 2013, the year passed all academic institutions), the signatories called enlargement institutions through their associations in the” interdisciplinary “basis.

There are also other” results “achieved by the would-be reformers from the beginning of the system transformation:

– the fall of the authority of science in society, as Russian science – in the world,

– the complete destruction of the science management system,

– demotivation and demoralization actively working scientists,

– a new wave of scientific emigration, especially among young people,

-rezkaya activation of bureaucrats and rascals of science,

– a decrease in the proportion of high-quality domestic publications . in the world of science

Immediately academics offer a number of urgent measures to save the situation:

– All rights of the founder of scientific institutions should be returned to the RAS making Fano integral part of it, is only responsible for economic issues and management of the property, but not for the management of scientific research and assessment of the effectiveness of the institutions and their management

-. immediately stop the destructive campaign of senseless restructuring of the system of the existing institutions of the RAS carried out without the approval of the scientific community and without a clear understanding of the objectives and tasks, as well as the structure of modern science

-. Output academia from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of education and science. According to scientists, it is necessary at all to form the new Ministry of Education and independent State Committee for Science and Technologies (SCS & T) as the central body for the organization of applied research in the country

-. Multiply increase funding academic research

<. p> – Enable active scientists, enjoying the confidence of the scientific community and international recognition in the state of science management system

Under this appeal among 150 signatures signed by such well-known academician, like Evgeny Aleksandrov, Zhores Alferov, Alexander. Aseeva, Leo Green, Boris Kovalchuk, Gennady Month, Alexander Nekipelova, Victor Polterovich, Mikhail Sadovsky, as well as 76-year-corresponding members of the RAS and the 18 newly elected young professors RAS.

a spokesman for President Dmitry Peskov said in the evening on July 25 that Vladimir Putin was informed about writing more than 100 scientists of the RAS, which expressed concern that the Federal agency of scientific organizations, instead of a purely economic activity pretends to guide the research and assessment of the effectiveness of the research teams.

President’s press secretary also said that the Kremlin is familiar with the material published in the media about this open letter with great attention to the concerns that are expressed by scientists.

in this case, however, he noted that the Kremlin is well known and alternative points of view, in particular, on the positive side, which brought the reform of the Academy of Sciences. He stressed that now it is important to analyze these concerns against the background of the picture, and putting on the scales all points of view

President Comment RAS Vladimir Fortova:.

« I did not sign this publication, because at that time was on a business trip. It reflects the main problem that has been discussed many times. It arose when there was reform and the separation of functions between the management of science and RAN Fano. Then it was clear, and the president of the country is stressed that the idea of ​​the scientific component of administrative and economic-will operate only when the division will be clearly organized. This thesis we have always preached. In fact, during the two years we have seen that our views diverge from Fano, the border between us is becoming increasingly strained. It was coined by the principle of two keys that at the suggestion of the president was recorded in the form of an agreement. But now we see that this is not enough, since it is often confronted with the fact that the boundary is moved in the direction of science. Fano, it seems, takes over functions which are not peculiar to it. Everything else was written in the letter is merely a consequence of the breach of this general principle. »