Scientists conduct protest festivities at the State Duma

The State Duma on Tuesday morning began an inconsistent action against the reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the appeal of leading Russian scientists, opponents of the government version of the reform carry out protest festivities without posters. On this day, the Duma will return to the consideration of the scandalous bill on the merger of the Russian Academy of Sciences with other academies. The document is planned to be returned to the second reading. In the evening, the Duma Committee on Science will consider the amendments prepared following the results of meetings of deputies with academics. On Wednesday, the bill is planned to be adopted in the second and third reading.

"The plenary meeting of the Duma on Tuesday begins, as we understand it, at 10 am. We begin to walk at 9:00 opposite the Duma, through the Okhotnoye series. We do not take posters and shirts are welcome," the address of academicians Vladimir Zakharov, Valery Rubakov and Alexander Kuleshov said.

The most large -scale protests against the bill took place in Moscow and St. Petersburg on July 2 (

Photo, video ). On July 5, a group of civilian activists held an inconsistent campaign at the State Duma (

VIDEO ). On this day, the bill was adopted in the second reading .

President Vladimir Putin promised to take into account his wishes and amendments to the scientific community. Meanwhile, on September 13, Academician Rubakov said that the bill was prepared for the third reading in the rigid version. It is assumed that the property of the Academy will be managed by a specially created agency, and the institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences will lose self -government. "In practice, this will lead to the absolute collapse of scientific life in the institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is so afraid of the vast majority of the Russian scientific community," the initiative group of scientists notes. “If scientific institutions are transferred to the agency, that is, officials, then you can call the branches a thousand times by legal entities, but the RAS will still become a club for interests,” Academician Rubakov explained to Kommersant.

On Saturday, on the website of the Society of Scientists, an appeal was published with an appeal to check on the plagiarism of the dissertation of 25 out of 344 deputies who voted to the draft law on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. "We draw your attention to the fact that the vote of such deputies for the destruction of the Russian Academy of Sciences can be dictated by fear of revelations and motives for personal revenge to the academic community," the appeal says. Unicorns, in turn, accused scientists of self -habitation .