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FSB will check the articles of scientists from Moscow State University
FSB will check the articles of scientists from Moscow State University
© Scienceplus.ru poster "Glory to the Soviet scientist!" 1977 (fragment)Employees of the Research Institute of Physics and Chemical Biology named after A.N. Belozersky Moscow State University announced that all their articles before publication in scientific journals should receive the approval of the FSB.
This was reported by Meduza with reference to the journal Nature , which, in turn, quotes the minutes of the meeting, held on October 5 at the Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology of Moscow State University.
“Remember that in accordance with applicable law, scientists are required to obtain permission to publish any articles,” the protocol says. It also notes that the new rule applies to all employees of the institute without exception and extends to the texts of speeches at scientific conferences, regardless of where they are taking place in Russia or abroad.
Professor of the Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia of the Geographical Faculty of Moscow State University Vyacheslav Shuper in an article published on October 20 in the newspaper Troitsky Option , writes that at a meeting of the department “it was announced to restore the old Soviet practice of the examination of the examination for all published articles and its new form was demonstrated”.
According to him, the employees of one of the institutes of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences "are forced to translate into Russian articles written in English to draw up an examination act." “The Moscow State University is not required to translate articles from English into Russian yet,” the geographer notes.
According to the author of the article in Nature , permission to publish scientific articles issues the first department of Moscow State University. “In the Urals, a special unit (aka 1st department), apparently, has already gained previous power in academic institutions. - reports Shuper. “Examination acts there are required to be drawn up even for conversations with foreign colleagues or correspondence with them.”