When the Morok is scattered

In Moscow, due to the closure of the Dynasty Foundation, scientists rareded. Reporting Ilya Azar

In Moscow, on June 6, a rally was held in support of science and education - a recent recognition of the Dynasty charitable foundation “foreign agent” was a immediate reason for him. Fund President Dmitry Zimin, outraged by this decision of the Ministry of Justice, decided to stop financing the organization and, according to some reports , left Russia. The Dynasty Foundation for many years helped with grants to young scientists, financed the publication of popular science literature and the Enlightener Award; Many researchers and public figures were outraged by what happened to the "dynasty". As a result, more than three thousand people came to the action - they not only criticized power, but also offered to unite in new organizations. The special correspondent of Medusa Ilya Azar listened to the speeches of prominent scientists and talked with the participants in the rally.

At the time of the official beginning of the rally, it was very little bitter on Suvorovskaya Square. One of the organizers of the rally, an employee of the “Fund for Combating Corruption”, Nikolai Lyaskin gloomily wandered around an empty square opposite the Russian Army Theater and complained that people “became completely”, and they developed “learned helplessness”.

However, after half an hour the square was suddenly filled with people - mainly by employees of scientific institutes, former and current students and other intelligent people. Many of them put on an icon with the image of a wealthy tree-the emblem of the "Dynasty", some in their hands were popular and popular books published with the support of the Fund. Someone read electronic books, someone led smart discussions-for example, about the recent lecture of the famous Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg. Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics MIIT Georgy Epstein told the interlocutor that "after the Nazis came to power in Germany, there were practically no great scientists, and Russia is moving moreover."

Many came to a rally with their posters: “In a country where the screening was not freedom, but religion - science will be a foreign agent”, “Russia will be free! From tyranny! From the Church! From the Caucasus! From taxes! From borders! From dead ends! ”,“ Yunes, education, not nameless graves in the Donbass ”,“ War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is power, “dynasty” is a foreign agent. ”

The man, who introduced himself as Igor Morozov, the head of the department at the United Institute of High temperatures, stood with the poster "I demand to recognize the Ministry of Justice as an agent of ignorance." He explained that he received a grant of the "dynasty" twice, so he simply could not come to the rally. “People like Zimin should only be encouraged, but the recognition and adequate assessment of his work is not visible by power, and this is sad,” said Morozov.

Zimin’s decision to stop the financing of the “dynasty” Morozov did not criticize. “The pressure on him began due to the fact that he financed the opposition, and it would not have stopped if he continued funding. This game is completely unpromising, there is no point in fighting - you won’t turn up, ”added Morozov’s colleague.

An employee of the Institute of High Tempensions (like many other participants in the rally in support of science) went to several rallies “for fair elections” and worked as an observer. However, on Suvorovskaya Square there were many people far from real policy. For example, Alexander Poddubny specially arrived at a rally from St. Petersburg-he was an employee of the Ioffe Physics and Technical Institute: “I didn’t go to other rallies, but came here because the story with the“ dynasty ”is already through the edge.”

There were many youth in the defense of science and education. The recent student of MIPT Sergey said that the "dynasty" "helped him all his life, from school to now." “But the point is not even in the“ dynasty ”, this is an occasion, but the general motive of my arrival is that we need science, we need freedom, that's all,” said Sergey. “I am against this kind of attempt on science and education, because there is nothing more important, it is sacred, you can’t do this,” his friend Catherine added indignantly.

The scenes were mainly well-known scientists who spoke about the deplorable state of Russian science, but there were no opposition speeches-nevertheless, the policy was the main reason for the rally, namely, the recognition of the Dynasty Foundation “foreign agent”.

“The laws of [the authorities] write exclusively universal: they wrote the law - everyone is to blame, they simply not caught everyone. They wrote another law: everything is prohibited, they simply are not always checked. They wrote the third law: opened his mouth - you form a public opinion. Closed his mouth - you are eloquently silent, you form a public opinion. “Dynasty” as a “foreign agent” is not even ten sigma of discrepancies, it is an epic fale. I hope that the bright side will win, ”said Astrophysicist Sergey Popov and suddenly ended his speech with the mention of the hero of the Star Trek series:“ Spock with us. ”

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, theoretical physicist Vladimir Zakharov complained that Russia is a country with a raw material economy, and it does not want to become a country of high technology. “Now, if we invented an AIDS vaccine, we could earn more on it than oil, but its development was discontinued due to lack of funding,” Zakharov said.

He recalled that the salary of a researcher is an average of 15 thousand rubles, but they continue to work because they are not motivated by money. “These people have a collision. Even before the “dynasty” they conducted the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, turned it into a club and made a fan, where officials receive 130 thousand rubles, because for them motivation is only money. Officials are managing scientists, filling them with absurd demands to paint what they will do in the next ten years, ”Zakharov cursed for the reform of the wounds of two years ago (she became the first reason for scientists to reach protest rallies).

“What is happening and is still preparing is terrible, it is a catastrophe of science. The authorities in Russia traditionally do not trust science. Remember: the last mayor of the city of Glupova burned the gymnasium and destroyed science! ” - Kakharov finished his speech.

The most acute political was, perhaps, the performance of the President of the Human Rights Fund, human rights activist and Soviet dissident Sergei Kovalev. “We live in the Oruelov world. Our Ministry of Justice is the Ministry of Power Street. The Constitutional Court supports or does not reject any anti -constitutional laws. Our power deliberately returned to the Constitution of the Russian Federation the functions of Stalin. In international relations, she sank to nuclear blackmail, suppresses peaceful and civilian organizations, carries out censorship and creates underground troll offers. Power is based on laws made to order 400 lackeys hired in fabricated paralament. And citizens or organizations - the only source of power - do not belong to the right to influence state policy, and if they want to do this, they are recognized as “foreign agents,” said Kovalev.

According to him, Zimin himself in a conversation with him approved a “tough conversation about legislation”, but asked not to make the “dynasty” the main topic of the conversation at the rally. Kovalev, nevertheless, called the situation with the fund "a vivid example of meaningless, stupid and cynical arbitrariness."

“But, you know, Putin is not to blame, we are to blame because we suffer such power,” Kovalev’s speech was interrupted by applause. - Of course, the solidarity of scientists is needed, but above all the solidarity of citizens, because there is no other way to influence what is happening. If not only Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov had once been looking through the academicians, then maybe we would have lived in another country. ”

Several opposition politicians - for example, the head of the unregistered "Party of Progress" Alexei Navalny or the leader of the Civil Initiative party Andrei Nechaev - came to the rally, but did not go to the stage.

Navalny modestly stood in the corner of the square and took pictures with fans. “I, like a huge number of normal people, just came to support scientists. The reason for the rally was, in fact, a completely outrageous thing - the destruction of the Dynasty Foundation. But, in general, this is a protest that science and education have become something unnecessary in Russia, and the political mainstream is under the slogan “obscurantism is good”. We see that encouraged public characters are Islamists and crazy motorcyclists with two classes of education. We probably did not have a single minister left for whom Dissernet would not find a linden dissertation. In the contrast, the scientific and educational community is not only devoid of money, but in principle it is squeezed out on the periphery of any social process. The propaganda of ignorance has become part of state policy, ”Navalny said.

According to him, if earlier the object of attack was liberals and homosexuals, now these are scientists. “On the one hand, they enjoy authority in society, and on the other, they say too much, so they have become dangerous for this version of the regime,” the oppositionist explained the motives of the authorities.

With my assumption that the financing of the Zimins family of the “Foundation for the fight against corruption” could have been a real seal of attack on the “dynasty”, the politician did not agree. “We have never received funding from the“ dynasty ”, [the son of Dmitry Zimin] Boris Zimin financed the FBK completely openly, transferred 300 thousand rubles each month. I think that [the attack] is not connected with me, but just there they considered that the presence of some independent person who, without coordination, shipped $ 10 million a year, no matter, albeit to books, is a dangerous uncontrolled factor, ”Navalny answered.

The politician admitted that he understands Zimin, who decided to stop financing the "dynasty". “In his place, I might have done the same. Of course, this is an emotional solution, but Zimin spends his money, which he earned not on oil and gas, but with his labor and brain, and be considered an “foreign agent” for him offending. ” The politician added that if the FBK is recognized as a “foreign agent” - although he “has absolutely no foreign financing” - he is not sure that the fund will continue to act in this status.

Some speakers tried to talk about positive. For example, Irina Prokhorova, editor -in -chief of the New Literary Review, tried to add “warlike optimism”. “We must not defend ourselves, but to advance and prove that we are the foundation of society, that enlightened and educated people are the future of the country, and without them no great country can exist at all. We have not paid attention to society for 25 years, we all conduct a dialogue with the authorities, make claims to people upstairs, but we need to talk with society, engage in enlightenment. Our society has historically experiences great respect for education. Let us tell the society how wonderful we are and what brilliant future we will have for his children and grandchildren if society will defend us. Nothing is lost while society wants to be educated, so let's work! ” - said Prokhorova (while she spoke, on the video screen installed near the theater of the Russian army, they twisted the advertisement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with a demonstration of military equipment’s abilities and the slogans “The Power of Weapons, the Strength of Spirit, the Forter of Beauty”).

Boris Stern, the editor -in -chief of the scientific newspaper Trinity Option, reminded of the final of Ray Bradbury’s book “451 according to Fahrenheit”, where people learned by heart the burned books. “Even if science is dying, we will have people: a man-astrophysicist, cosmology, an anthropogenesis person, and they will be able to explain everything. After the closing of the “dynasty”, it is necessary to unite and organize a community that will take over the educational functions of the fund, ”Stern said.

The director of the Sakharov Center Sergey Lukashevsky also discussed the same: “There is a time in the closure of the“ dynasty ” - the time should be completed when we hope that a strong and rich person will help us; The time comes when the future of our country depends on our joint and horizontal action. ” Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Moscow Mathematical Society, Viktor Vasiliev, in turn, called on colleagues "to teach children, so that when the Morok is scattered, there was someone to do business."

The most specific plan was the physicist, the co -founder of Dissernet and the candidate of the opposition primaries in the Parliament of the Kaluga Region Andrei Zazakin. “Our community neglects such an important way of protection as lobbying work. Suppose that we want the law on the execution of all the “hares” in the tram. Offer such a law, the Duma will immediately remember the humanity. But first, we push the law that only people, dogs and cats can be in the city. Then we equalize all the hares in the rights, then the equivalent of forest hares and tram. So the three actually harmless law lead to a fantastic conclusion that people can be shot for stowaway passage. You need to find a deputy in your district and eat his brain. “Crazy Printer” is insane in all directions, so perhaps some useful projects will be held, ”said Zazakin.

The rally ended with the gratitude of the FBK and the “Party of December 5” for help in organizing the action and the adoption of the final resolution . A girl with the support of the “dynasty” by Richard Dokinz “God is an illusion” in his hands came to the freed scene and began to shout: “This man completely discredited himself, he denies God! Do you want us to have the same in our country as the last 70 years?! ” The policemen was taken away, but the case of fighting scientists was continued by the man who introduced himself as a political scientist and Orthodox Christian Fomichev (the rally participants recognized in him one of the followers of the Orthodox figure Dmitry Enteo).

- We are against the propaganda of godlessness, obscurantism and Satanism! Homosexualism is a disease. I know the candidates of sciences, doctors who completely agree with me. You are engaged only in propaganda, you have no enlightenment. Thank God that this God -proper fund will be covered and expelled from the country, ”said Fomichev.

- Thank God, thank Christ! - added his ally in camouflage.

“I am an atheist, I don’t believe in your Christ, we have a secular country,” one of the rally participants tried to enter into a discussion with Fomichev.

- That's why you disgrace our country! - Fomichev shouted triumphantly - and began to look for ways to leave the rally.

Ilya Azar

Moscow