From Kobzon to Yanukovych

Audit of the list of honorary professors of Moscow State University, from where Lukashenko could not exclude

In the list of honorary professors of Moscow State University - 145 people available to me.

Perhaps there are more of them; For example, for some reason, for some reason, neither TV presenter Valdis Pelsh, nor who held with him with one resolution of the Academic Council “Member-Delegat of the All-Chinese Assembly of People's Representatives of the People’s Republic of China, Professor Ma Yidee”. The rector of Moscow State University V. Sadovnichy, speaking at the ceremony, noted his contribution to the protection of intellectual property and fruitful cooperation with Moscow State University. And just the other day, Ma Yide, a professor in intellectual property at the University of Economics and Law in Juna (Hubay Province), commented on the issuance of a patent for the AD5-NCOV vaccine against coronavirus, which has passed the first stage of clinical trials in the country. “The development of a domestic vaccine against the new coronavirus is a significant event, and this time the regulatory body in the field of intellectual property took very quick and decisive actions to provide legal protection,” the expert said ...

I did not find other information about an outstanding Chinese scientist on the Internet.

In general, this is an exclusively educational institution to whom to assign the title of their honorary professor who is not. By the way, I did not find the provisions of this title (unlike the “Honored Professor”), so I was able to use the situation of the situation - also Moscow State University, but the Mordovian name of Ogarev. It says that it " is assigned to life and cannot be removed in the future." But, as it seems to me, the assignment of a title can imply only two goals: to indicate the recognition by the university of outstanding merits of a person (both a scientist and a politician, a cultural figure, etc.), and an unobtrusive designation of his own claims.

Tell me who your honorary professor is, and I will tell you who you are, something like this.

If your honorary professors - Einstein, Rostropovich, Gavel, Churchill - this is one thing. If, excuse me, the showman pelsh and the mysterious Udan specialist in patent law, this, with all respect for them, is something else.

By the way, the place of Moscow State University (named after Lomonosov) in the world ranking of the 200 Best Universities in the World, annually compiled by the British company QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), last year - eighty -seventh. The university went steadily and consistently sixteen years old when he was sixty -sixth ... According to the “Shanghai Rating of Universities”, Moscow State University is ninety -third. But The (Times Higher Education) is completely considered the best Russian university - one hundred and eighty -seventh. But we will agree to consider this attack Russophobic and will not take into account.

Let's get back to the list of honorary professors.

Among them, of course, are very different people, including the most picky look - well -known, impeccable. Say, Nobel laureate Academician Zhores Alferov. Or the Nobel laureate from Israel Crystallographer Ada Jonat. Or Zhiskar d'Esten. Or Plisetskaya ... or Cosmonaut Tereshkova, now a specialist in constitutional law ...

However, from the mid-90s (there is a temptation to correlate with the arrival of the Rector Sadovnichi), you are increasingly falling into some, I would say, bewilderment. Honorary Professor Joseph Kobzon. Honorary Professor Nikolai Dobronravov and wife of his honorary professor Alexander Pakhmutov. Honorary Professor Lyudmila Zykina ... The whole set of leaders of the post -Soviet republics (Akayev, both Aliyev, Rakhmonov, Karimov, Nazarbayev, Kuchma, Yanukovych, Lukashenko, Sargsyan ...) It is easier to list who is not, no Georgian, no Turkmen, there are no Baltic states) ... Balkan leaders - including the wife of Miloshevich ... Everything UN Secretary Generals ... Selected leaders of Russian autonomies - Nikolaev from Yakutia, Minnikhanov from Tatarstan ... There are many Primate of the Orthodox Church (caught the eye in connection with this is a brilliant absence of Muslims, Buddhists, Jews) ... Sen Sositsa XV, Japanese master of the tea ceremony ...

Each separately - of course, is suitable. But all together - make a discouraging impression that is quite corresponding to the place of Moscow State University in international ratings.

One hundred eighty -seventh place, say? ..

Moreover, such (to the limit for the formalized) approach to determining the list of honorary professors, the university council is putting the university’s council in an extremely vulnerable position: when anyone can ask a reasonable question - are all the notes are really ready to “always defend the ideals of friendship between peoples, serve the prosperity of science and education” and proved this to their daily activities?

So Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, as you know, gave an occasion to write these notes. These are his 40 thousand graduates and employees of Moscow State University called for depriving the honorary title. And the rector answered them that this was “stupidity”.

I met Lukashenko in 1998. The leaders of the Union of Journalists of Eastern Europe urgently gathered in Minsk - the next day, from the submission of the president, the Belarusian parliament was going to adopt amendments to the law on the press, completely crossing its main content.

We, then, gathered the day before. The owners, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, prepared a sharp resolution, the most decisive champions of democracy (mainly from Central Asia) completely supported it. We, the Poles and the Baltic states called for caution: if we want to glue the impending dictatorship again, then the proposed text is perfect. If we want to disrupt the adoption of the law, it is better to write a restrained and convincing letter to the president. In which it would be directly to say that the only one who can stop the law is he.

They wrote a letter. And in the morning we were all unexpectedly invited to Lukashenko, I think we were just listened to the whole evening.

Lukashenko said several compliments of the free press. “And then they tell me that they are going to accept some stupid law. I have already ordered him to remove him from discussion! .. ”We gasped.

The law was removed from the discussion. And they accepted it only a year later.

And the president told us about his vision of the world for two and a half hours.

“Here the other day, yours, a member of the Presidential Council, came to me, from Moscow. He began to speak, and I: wait, you are a professor of economics, doctor of sciences, and I am a simple person. Listen to what I will tell you. And he said. And then he got up, he says, it’s not me - a doctor, it’s you, Alexander Grigoryevich, - doctor. Thank you. I will think ... "

In Moscow, I called Latsis, retold what I heard. Otto was amazed: "I categorically refused to listen to the heresy that he began to carry me ..."

By that time, Lukashenko was an honorary professor of Moscow University for two years.