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Surprising by researchers
The peasants plow, doctors treat, scientists invent, Chekists are vulgar. Everyone is engaged in what his soul lies and for which there is enough strength and abilities. And the soul of the Chekist does not know rest, especially when it comes to the contacts of our citizens with foreigners. In glorious Soviet times, the departments and management of the KGB were engaged in these contacts, vigilantly protecting Soviet secrets from foreigners, and Soviet people from the corruption of the West. These were the times of the Chekist victories over freethinkers, carefree talkers and common sense. However, the times when the posters "do not chat at the phone hung in the offices. The talker is a find for a spy", went through, and citizens go abroad fearlessly, are printed where they want and say what they think. Any compassionate person, having reflected a little bit, agrees that for a Chekist soul, the situation has developed simply unbearable.
Maybe this would continue to continue, do not take the presidential post in Russia a personnel security officer. His former colleagues perked up and took up the usual business.
On May 30, the State Duma deputy Sergei Kovalev presented the public a curious document. It turns out that the Deputy Director of the Institute of General Genetics (Jogen) Ilya Zakharov sent the next letter to the head of laboratories and groups (spelling):
"Deeply liable colleagues! In connection with the order of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences" On the plan for the measures of the Russian Academy of Sciences to prevent damage to the Russian Federation "I ask you to urgently (by June 1) to submit information on the presence of international agreements (contracts, contracts) in the laboratory (group).
I also ask you to take into account the need to fulfill the following:
The prepared applications for international grants timely report to the Directorate with the provision of a copy of them to the scientific secretary.
Inform the Foreign Department of Joen about all the visits of foreigners to the laboratory (group).
Timely submit to the foreign department reports on the results of scientific trips abroad.
Copies of all articles sent for publication abroad to submit to the scientific secretary of the institute.
Give proposals under paragraphs 1, 4-7, 10, 11 of the specified plan. "
It is difficult to say what percentage of the seizures will hastily run to the institute authorities with reports on contacts with foreigners, with applications for grants and copies of scientific articles sent abroad. No law obliges them to this. At least until such a law is adopted. Therefore, it may very well be that the campaign to increase vigilance in Russian scientific institutions is a test of the pen of lawmakers, reconnaissance in battle, an attempt to find out the degree of loyalty of scientists or, expressed in a capacious camp language, "check for rot."
The “Plan of the Russian Academy of Sciences to prevent damage to the Russian Federation in the field of economic and scientific and technical cooperation” , signed by the chief scientific secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Nikolai Platae, is not at all like a scientific document, but amazingly resembles the creations of workers from Dzerzhinsky Square. What are, say, the following formulations: "... Identification of contracts and contracts requiring special control measures to prevent the transfer of information regarding the ensuring the national security of the Russian Federation abroad ... To strengthen control over the preparation of materials for open publication ... to exercise constant monitoring of the procedure for going abroad by scientific wounds admitted to state secrets ... To strengthen control over the reports of scientific employees about the reports of scientific employees about Travel results abroad. " Simply put, this is a plan for operational events, which should not be implemented by staffing state security, but their voluntary assistants from academic institutions.
The first thing that comes to mind is the FSB does not have enough strength to independently work in this direction. But this is only part of the explanation. General motives are apparently more global - to restore the tool of total control over scientific activity (so far - over scientific!), A tool that has been perfection of totalitarianism and rusted during the democratic freemen of the last decade. "
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