Articles in HTML: 12/21/2010 PDF: TrV No. 25 (69N) for 2010: Man and Corporation Announcement of the issue Man and the Corporation (page 1) The issue opens with a story about the problems Alexey Krushelnitsky encountered after his publications about Akademintorg. The problem was solved (to a large extent due to...

Rice. V. Alexandrova In general, a civil defense lecture was expected. For a few days, they strictly warned at the institute speakerphone about the mandatory turnout. And at 10:00 people, from graduate students to seizures, gathered in a conference hall. And what did they see?! There was no lecture, the lecturer too. Instead, the show of children's cartoons on the topic began. Bear and bunnies in an accessible form for the audience showed how to behave in a fire and flood.

The life of mathematician and teacher Dmitry von der Flaas (1962-2010) has been compared to a star that flared up and quickly burned out. His academic degrees and titles are Ph.D. physics and mathematics Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics named after. S.L. Sobolev SB RAS (Novosibirsk) - they are unlikely to say much about his real contribution to science and education. He died too early, at the age of 48, after a serious illness.

V.I. Martynov. Photo by N. Demina In the past semester, I had a happy opportunity to completely listen to the course of lectures “Musical Anthropology”, read at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov , a composer, a cultural scientist, a philosopher, author of a number of brilliantly written books about music (and not only!).

V. Glukhov The struggle for taking into account publication indicators in assessing the effectiveness of scientific projects was crowned with success: in a number of documents both the Ministry of Education and Science, and the Russian Academy of Sciences are proposed to take into account quoting data collected in the Russian scientific citation index ( http://elibary.ru/project_risc.asp ). At the same time, the quality of the base itself causes serious complaints for many.

The letter to the President, signed by more than 2,200 scientists, mainly focused on the need to improve the competitive funding system in general and the preservation of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Humanitarian Fund in particular. The deplorable state of application of 94-FZ during competitions was also described. But it is important that the matter was not limited to the letter.

The destruction of unique collections of the Sochi All-Russian Research Institute of Floriculture and Subtropical Crops continues [1]. According to order No. 513-r dated June 17 of this year, signed by Deputy Head of the Federal Property Management Agency P.A. Potapov, the right of permanent use on the area currently occupied by collections of varieties of subtropical crops - hazelnuts, tea, feijoa - is terminated. This order does not provide any new land.

Articles in HTML: 12/07/2010 PDF: TrV No. 24 (68N) for 2010: “At least we tried” Announcement of the issue Interview with Minister Andrei Fursenko Mikhail Gelfand asked about who was given mega-grants, how to change examination procedures and what to do with 94-FZ - pp. 2-3 Akademintorg and Co. State procurement of scientific equipment:...

Problems with financing and reorganizing science exist not only in Russia. In recent years, our Italian colleagues have encountered great difficulties. Since the financial crisis, the situation has only gotten worse. Astrophysicists answered TrV-Science's questions: Professor Roberto Turolla from the University of Padua and Dr. Adamantia Paizis from the Astrophysical Institute in Milan.

In South Africa, on the territory of Bost -Kostsov, tourists can survey the restored city of ancient African civilization - the luxurious palace of the ruler; "Bridge of time" to him, lined with statues of elephants; impressive stone leopard at the temple of creation; Pools bordered by palm trees. A certain northern people penetrated here 3 thousand years ago and erected all this splendor, then the earthquake destroyed the city, and the surrounding black tribes pulled the remnants.

Announcement of the issue A drop wears away a stone. Scientists' letter sent to the President (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko The letter to the President, signed by more than 2,200 scientists, mainly focused on the need to improve the competitive funding system in general and the preservation of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Humanitarian Fund in particular. The deplorable state of application of 94-FZ during competitions was also described.

Rice. M. Smagina The collection of signatures under a letter to the President of the Russian Federation, which refers to the unreasonableness of state policy in the field of science, about the need to maintain leading scientific funds-the RFF and the RGNF-and a significant increase in their financing, as well as the incomprehensibility of the legislation regulating the state purchases, to the realities of the scientific and educational sphere (see the TRV-54 of May 25, 2010).

In recent years, various initiatives related to private business in the space area have begun to appear. Some projects (for example, Falcon) are heard. Some - no. Large private sponsors are trying to maintain this movement by conducting competitions. The head of the Russian project "Selelenok" Nikolai Dzisi-Vovarovsky answers the questions of the Trv-hunger. - What is this series of competitions X Prize? What is the main goal of the organizers of the X Prize?

While Ekonomov’s colleague is on vacation, swimming in the warm sea, and we are suffering here in the heat, there is nothing left to do but write about football, and academic football at that. Surely, fans of this wonderful sport, glued to television screens during the World Championships in South Africa, did not notice an important event that happened on June 10, 2010.

Once upon a time, I came up with a linguistic problem that I still immodestly find very elegant. It sounds like this: you need to translate the word inde from Old Russian into Latin. But this is not a task for linguists. Otherwise, I then wished it on my colleague and friend Seryozha Krylov, and he, of course, did not have difficulty answering, but also did not appreciate the beauty of the game. When I began to explain what the matter was, he said: “Yes, I just translated...”.