The medal is not for everyone

Dear editors!

I saw here recently with an old friend. We sat with him, drank for the holiday, and then he shared his grief: they did not give him the jubilee “300 years of the Russian Academy of Sciences”. I ask him, what kind of medal is it, what it gives, whether the status of a “veteran of labor” can be obtained with this medal. A friend replied that she did not give anything, but it’s just a shame that he, a person who has worked forty years in the system of the Academy of Sciences, may not give a memorable medal.

And that's what turned out. At the end of 2022, the President of Russia issued a decree on the establishment of the anniversary medal "300 years of the Russian Academy of Sciences." The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences was ordered to develop and approve the rules and procedure for presenting the medal, as well as organize its presentation on behalf of the President of Russia, the government - to ensure the financing of the manufacture of anniversary medals, cases for medals and forms of certificates for them. And everything would be fine, only in the developed rules it was spelled out that everyone who worked at the Academic Institute for twenty or more years can be awarded the medal than many institutions took advantage of the ideas for the awarding of hundreds of people. And there were less than ten thousand medals, of course, there were enough academics and junior members of the academy, but there were no institutions for all the declared employees of the institutions.

The leadership of the Academy grabbed their heads and considered that it was necessary to give commemorative medals not to everyone who worked, but only the most worthy, as a result, another presidential decree appeared in January, which established that persons who made a significant contribution to the formation and development of science should be awarded. Not engineers, that is, not cleaners and other ordinary researchers. But clarity to whom they will give the medal, and to whom it is not, and to this day is absent. So my friend is spinning.

Of course, these suffering are ridiculous to me-this is not a state reward for some merits, but some kind of memorable medal. But, on the other hand, it may be good that people are worried about such funny problems as a lack of anniversary medals?

After all, the West again collapses more and more sanctions on us, raging in powerless rage: the second anniversary, Navalny ... Yes, Alexei Navalny died in a colony. He was 47 years old. The West and our liberals - one of them came to me just recently about this - immediately raised a noise: he was healthy, this is a murder! No, colleagues, it's just life. We, there, have recently died, not in the colony, he was ... 47 years old. It was so alive, cheerful, in the corridor more recently it was possible to meet it - and died. Who is to blame for this, Putin, British intelligence? Just such a life today. Life is complex, hard, unpredictable.

I remember my childhood and youth: I lived well and calmly in the country of Soviets, people had confidence in the future, in the progress of human civilization. What now? Some kind of horror is simple! Throughout the world of Pandemia, geopolitical crises, you look around-crimes are multiplying: extremism, terrorism, treason, rehabilitation of Nazism, gay propaganda, insulting the feelings of believers ...

It's scary to live, colleagues!

Your Ivan Ekonomov