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Not taken into account the scientist
For the State Duma, the second day continues protest against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The initiative group of Moscow State University and other protest groups were called upon to continue the action. As stated in the appeal, at the meeting of the Duma Committee on Science, which took place on Tuesday, where amendments to the bill in the second reading were discussed, two key points were never taken into account, the revision of which scientists achieved.
Firstly, the newly created agency still intends not only to transfer the property of state academies to the management, but also to entrust the control of scientific work. Secondly, scientific institutions and centers of the Russian Academy of Sciences are supposed to be liquidated as independent legal entities. The status of legal entities will be preserved only by the Academy branches.
"Thus, the bill, which will be planted tomorrow in the State Duma, is only slightly changed compared to the initial project published in July," the appeal says. “This means that we, scientists, have once again deceived.”
Meanwhile, academicians Valery Rubakov and Alexander Kuleshov called on opponents of RAS Reform to come to the State Duma as much as possible by 16:00. At this time, an official meeting with deputies has been made. At 17:00, an hour of voting will open in the lower house, during which the bill will be considered in the second and third readings.
On the eve of an inconsistent promotion at the State Duma gathered several hundred people. She passed without detention. On the icons of the participants, the Russian Academy of Sciences. SOS was written. Some brought flowers. One of the participants came in a white coat with the inscription "Shame on the murderers of Russian science!" In front of the State Duma stood a cage with a laboratory rat. The poster "I and our entire laboratory against the RAS reform" was attached to the cage.
Academician, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Boris Kashin spoke to the audience. “We came here to enlighten riot police,” he said. Deputy Alexander Potapov said that the PPRF position almost completely coincides with the position of the scientific community. The Communists handed out leaflets.
The deputy head of the Fair Russia faction Oksana Dmitrieva invited the deputies to listen to representatives of scientists. “She suggested inviting future Perelmanov, Alferov to the State Duma and discuss the Law on the wounds with them. They rejected,” she writes on Twitter. Only 191 deputy voted for this proposal.
Earlier, the State Duma returned the bill on the reform of the State Academy of Sciences in the second reading. On Tuesday, the amendments to the document were considered by the Science Committee.
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Scientists enlighten riot police
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The most large -scale protests against the bill took place in Moscow and St. Petersburg on July 2 ( 
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 .