
What is humanitarian science, what is its achievements and what is the benefit of them to society? Why is state policy in Russia aimed at reducing budget places in humanitarian universities? We are discussing Soviet traditions and current trends - with the vice -rector for the scientific work of the Russian State Humanitarian University of the Russian State Humanitarian University Dmitry Baku, the scientific director of the Center for Typology and Semiotics of Folklore of the Russian State University Sergey Neklyudov, director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University, Maxim Krongauz.