Announcement of the issue

Somewhere at the end of winter this year, the directors of 15 institutes signed a “Partnership Agreement in the field of creation, modernization and use of unique mega-class research facilities”...

Cvoi doctor

St. Petersburg University began to award its own scientific degrees. One of the first St. Petersburg PhDs was interviewed by Mikhail Gelfand - page 5

Time for the critics

Report by Karina Nazaretyan about the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki - page 6

100 years of Israel Gelfand

At the conference dedicated to the centenary anniversary of I.M. visited Gelfanda, Natalia Demina - page 9

"Living Science": ISAN

In the new project “Living Science” TrV-Science represents the Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Interview with Deputy Director of ISAN Oleg Kompanets - pp. 12-13

Reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences and philosophy of language

We have written and are writing a lot about the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences that fell out of the blue (in the summer!). We bring to your attention another unusual view - philosophical and linguistic - page 14