Basic truths

History, as we know, teaches that for some it teaches nothing. Therefore, we have to constantly remind ourselves of the inadmissibility of forgetting elementary truths, neglect of which is fraught with grave consequences.

The state of our science reflects the state of the entire society, which has already been repeatedly noted in many publications in various publications. To understand some of the realities of today, it is useful to remember how they have been formed over the past decades.

A number of features of this era can be traced through the history of the Law “On Indexation of Cash Income and Savings of Citizens in the RSFSR” dated October 24, 1991, which provided for an increase in budget salaries, pensions, scholarships, as well as indexation of citizens’ savings bank savings in accordance with rising retail prices. The compliance of this Law with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the need for its implementation were recorded in the Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation dated May 31, 1993.

However, all other branches of the Russian government, including courts of general jurisdiction at all levels, where many citizens appealed, ignored both this Law and the Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. As a result of such a massive violation of the law, many tens of millions of public sector employees suffered - from students to pensioners and Sberbank depositors.

The robbery of tens of millions of conscientious and law-abiding citizens in the early 90s sharply slowed down the formation of a normal middle class and contributed to the malignant growth in the country of “gangster capitalism” with an unprecedented scale of corruption, which makes it possible to “buy” almost any decisions of all branches of power - legislative, executive and judicial.

The disintegration of the judicial power was clearly visible already at the very beginning of this twentieth century. This can be seen in the example of the decision of the Sverdlovsk District Court of Moscow (judge GN. Kuznetsova) dated April 12, 1993 on the claim of A.A. Samokhin for damages in connection with non-compliance with the Indexation Law. Here is what, in particular, is written in this decision:

“In Art. 1 of this Law defines the concept of indexation as a state-established mechanism for increasing cash income and savings of citizens in connection with rising consumer prices. The purpose of indexation is to maintain the purchasing power of citizens' cash income and savings.

Thus, it is impossible to arbitrarily index the deposits, as the plaintiff requests.

The representative of the defendant provided detailed information about the interest rates on deposits in institutions of Sberbank of Russia that were made from 1990 to 1993 inclusive (case file 13), and the fact that these rates do not suit the plaintiff is not a basis to satisfy the plaintiff's demands."

The GN judge is here. Kuznetsova simply ignores the fact that Sberbank’s actions violate the Indexation Law and the rights of citizens. In fact, “arbitrarily”, i.e. It was Sberbank that acted without complying with the Indexation Law.

The fact of non-implementation of this Law for the entire period of its validity (the Law was repealed without any discussion by the notorious “Law on Monetization” in 2005) is the same gaping “milestone” of the past twenty years, like voucher privatization, loans-for-shares auctions and other “epoch-making achievements” . In addition to the Indexation Law, many other Laws were not implemented. As a result, we now have what we have, including in terms of the size of student and postgraduate scholarships. No one has yet been held accountable for such massive violations of the law during the construction of a “brave new world” in Russia.

Irresponsibility

Irresponsibility can be the cause of degradation of any community, any public organization. One of the signs of such degradation is the inability and/or unwillingness to critically assess the own state of the organization - be it the USSR in the last years of its existence, the Russian Academy of Sciences or the Trade Union of Russian Academy of Sciences workers.

For almost two years now, the RAS has somehow still not been able to consider the statement of the General Meeting of the Division of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, addressed to the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences in May 2010 [1]. PR RAS is unable to conduct a full pre-congress discussion of the situation in the trade union, which almost led to the disruption of the V Congress of PRRAN [2], and attempts to hold such a discussion after the Congress (“Scientific Community” No. 8-9, TrV-Nauka dated 9 August 2011) are systematically disrupted under various pretexts.

In TrV-Nauka on November 8 [3], attention was already drawn to the specific activity demonstrated by the “defenders of the mess”, which is getting worse on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the PR RAS. In December 2011, it was decided not to publish in the “NS” not only the continuation of the discussion of the situation in the trade union based on the materials of the article by M.P., which I promised in the journal “Scientific Community” No. 10. Korchagina in No. 8-9 "NS", but also simply information that this is being done on the initiative of the editorial board of "NS", and not through the fault of the author.

This was done by the editorial council in the “classical” traditions, and if A.S. Mironov limited himself to a simple argument that this would be incomprehensible to the “unbiased reader,” then V.G. Varnavsky has almost reached the level of the GN judge mentioned above. Kuznetsova:

"Ed. the board made a decision. The decision was made by a qualified majority. There were no violations of democratic principles and legislative norms during the discussion and decision-making. The author is dissatisfied; this is his constitutional right and a personal matter. But this does not mean at all that the newspaper should publish his materials in which he expresses dissatisfaction with the decision taken.”

The disadvantage of this kind of argumentation is that neither V.G. Varnavsky, nor other similar “solvers”, including the heads of PR RAS and MRO PRAN V.P. Kalinushkina and V.A. Yurkin, they simply do not want to pay attention to the abnormality of the situation in the PR RAS, trying to reduce this whole problem to the fact that “the author is dissatisfied” and that this is his “personal matter.” The latest double issue of “NS” No. 1112 with reactions from V.P. Kalinushkin to the performance of I.L. Bronevoy “Is the RAS Trade Union capable of self-criticism?” confirms such a turn in the leadership of PR RAS.

The fork in the road discussed in “NS” No. 7 has been passed. Defenders of chaos and irresponsibility in PR RAS became more clearly identified. One way or another, this arrangement is much better than the vagueness and ambiguity that clouds the real appearance of the acting characters. And this too is an elementary truth!

Alexander Samokhin

1. No. 54, May 25, 2010, http://trv-science.ru/2010/05/25

2. A. Samokhin. “We, the workers of the RAS...”, No. 84, August 2, 2011 http:/trv-science.ru/2011/08/02/my-rabotniki-ran

3. A. Samokhin. “To see the world...”, No. 91, November 8, 2011. http://trv-science.ru/2011/ll/08/chtob-videt-mir