Do not teach, scientist

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov called the position of President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov on the reform of the State Academies by hypocrisy. “It was worth it to express my opinion on the current state and prospects of the Russian Academy of Sciences in one of the interviews, like Zhores Alferov and Vladimir Fortov left the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science,” the minister said to Izvestia. “Now Forters have repeated the words that the wounds needed in the reforms and it is inconsistent. I believe that its current behavior is just hypocrisy and no reforms, if it was not reform. Fortov remained the president of the "old" RAS, there was no. "

Livanov explained the preparation of the document without consultations with the scientific community by the fact that "the bill does not affect the organization of scientific life." The restructuring of the Russian Academy of Sciences, according to the minister, will take two to three months after the law entered into force.

The day before, President Vladimir Putin proposed a number of conceptual amendments to the bill. As Fortov stated, "reform goes into a reasonable-angry, interested direction." The first deputy chairman of the Duma faction of "United Russia" Nikolai Bulaev said that Putin's amendments involve the preservation of the status of a state institution by the Academy.

In addition, the Academy of Medical and Agricultural Sciences will not be liquidated, as previously expected. They, like the RAS, will remain budgetary institutions, retain their scientific institutions, and later will be part of the United Academy of Sciences as separate legal entities.

According to the Ministry of Education and Science, presidential amendments are also provided for "a special procedure for the adoption of corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RAMS and RASN in academics of the Russian Academy of Sciences." What is the essence of this "new order", the ministry was not specified.

The State Duma Committee on Science and Hero -intensive technologies recommended that the lower house adopt a bill in the second reading, which would be held on Friday. According to the head of the Socialist Revolutionary Committee Vladimir Chereshnev, most of the amendments to the document proposed by the committee were supported.

On Wednesday, the document was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading. The law was supported by 234 deputies with a necessary minimum of 226 votes. The Communist Party faction in full force left the meeting room in protest against the voting results.