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The RAS Employees' Trade Union is a kind of smaller copy of the Academy. As in the Academy, there are people there who believe that one of the very first steps towards solving the accumulated problems should be an open discussion of the current situation, a discussion about the organization of academic science and trade union life.

As a gun commander Sergeant Shubkin, now the chief researcher at the Institute of Sociology, met a German soldier and hit him according to physiognomy V.N. Shubkin This newspaper number will be released after all the celebrations dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The issue opens with a large material devoted to the “school aspects” of the new law on state (municipal) institutions. The author is trying to figure out why the law is bad and what is good when applied to schools. We also publish a commentary by Konstantin Knop on the same topic.

Photo archive SB RAS Discussions about science may have already bored reading public, but thanks to them, more and more of our society realizes that the loss of fundamental science is equivalent to the Russian departure from among the leading scientific powers and its transformation into a third -rate country.

On May 19, Moscow will host a lecture by Nobel laureate in economics Eric Maskin “How should we choose presidents?” Eric Maskin is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics. The lecture is organized by the Dynasty Foundation together with the Russian Economic School (NES) as part of the lecture series in memory of Zvi Griliches. Phone for inquiries: 956-9508 Starts at 16:30 in the auditorium.

It’s better for me to keep silent, thought Alice. This time, since she did not say a word, no one said anything, but, to her greatest surprise, everyone thought in chorus (I hope you understand what it means to “think in chorus” ...). Lewis Carroll. Alice in the Zadaker I am bald, not tall, and by old age I also became stooped. And it’s unpleasant for me when it comes to these features.

A sluggish discussion about Russian science is gradually delaying more and more people, and not only scientists themselves, but also representatives of the authorities.

On April 16, the annual conference “Young Scientists of Russia” of the Dmitry Zimin Dynasty Foundation concluded its work at the Molodezhnaya Hotel in Moscow. According to tradition, the Foundation invited 90 established and future scientists - students, graduate students, candidates and doctors of science - laureates of the competitions for young physicists in 2009. They became winners of the competitions, for which more than 400 applications were submitted.

View > Home / Science and Society / Conquer Ignorance Conquer ignorance May 11, 2010 TrV No. 53, p. 1, Category: Science and Society no comments Photo by A. Konstantinov This issue of the “Trinity Option” is completed when the whole country celebrates Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War on an unprecedented scale.

The other day Academician A. A. Zaliznyak turned 75 years old. Knowing Andrei Anatolyevich’s special dislike for all kinds of anniversaries, I refrained from solemn congratulatory materials, but after that I cannot help but send my best wishes and assurances of unfailing admiration. I have expressed this admiration many times, including in print. And in this column - just some of my thoughts in connection with this informational occasion.

As soon as everyone learned to pronounce the name of the Icelandic volcano, a new “sobriety test” came. We pronounce without hesitation: draft federal law No. 308243-5 “On introducing amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in connection with improving the legal status of state (municipal) institutions.” On the Internet they simply call it “the law on paid secondary education,” unless they call it even worse.

The curious text was discovered by the attentive Columnists of the TRV-Hawn in the Living Journal Alexander Kalenuk. With the kind permission of the author, we publish this article, urging the reader to read everything from beginning to end. Necessarily from beginning to end! The most important problem of education and popularization of scientific knowledge is not that people do not want to study or learn new in general.

Dear editors! My heart bleeds when I see how all the efforts of our top leadership to direct the country towards a path of accelerated technological development leading to a bright future are drowning in a bureaucratic swamp. I just read: “In August 2009, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to develop the Electronic Government project for 2011-2015 by November 1 last year.

I recently read a wonderful book about the famous American physicist, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, “Of course you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!” The book contains various stories from the life of a scientist, and after just a few dozen pages it becomes clear how unusual this man was.