On April 16, 2011, the collection of signatures for an open letter from young scientists to the President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev 1 was completed . Although signatures were collected only among young scientists (no older than 40 years), this letter became the largest collective letter from the scientific community in Russian history. It was signed by 3,149 people.

Sergey Serezhnikov, Ph.D. physics and mathematics Sciences, until 1998 Head. lab. Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, participated in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, currently - director of the NTF Trisoft company 25 years have passed since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. And now there is a new disaster - an accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima-1.

Green traffic light. Collage M. Borisov The government has a discussion about what should be the amount of financing of the RFFIF and RGNF in the coming years. After the active actions of the scientific community (undertaken last year) in support of leading scientific funds, the leadership of the Ministry of Education and Science, finally, was worried (at least in words) the issue of increasing the financing of the RFFIF and the RSNF.

The article in No. 6(50) TrV-Science prompted me to recall my impressions of two American museums that I visited while working in the USA in 1990-91. However, I don’t think they have changed much, except that the exhibition has expanded. In any case, at that time these were thriving and very popular establishments that were unlikely to close or change radically in 20 years. In any case, the Smithsonian, one of Washington's main tourist attractions, is probably there.

Alexander Evdokimov, cand. Filol. Sciences, specialist in the work of M. Gorky and A. Platonov, S.N.S. IMLI RAS, leading editor of the Hard'n'Soft computer magazine Russian philologists have to rely more and more on modern digital technologies. Traditional paper academic publications were actually suspended for a while, since it became completely unprofitable to publish them in the same form.

Breton Duke of Castle in Nant ( See also text in the author’s editorial office ) The subject of my article is French education. I know him firsthand. First of all, I myself have been teaching at the French university for 13 years. In addition, my son came to France at the age of 9, graduated from school and is now graduating from the university.

A three-hobby completes the publication of translations of WikiLeaks documents related to Russian science (see also the first , second and third parts). The originals were kindly provided by the Russian Reporter magazine. We remind you that the documents dates back to 2007, and also that these are retelling and interpretation of conversations, information transmitted from other people's words, rumors, etc.

Male. Photo by P.Cauler, McGill University The question of the role of sexual reproduction is one of the most burning in evolutionary biology. In fact, males, it would seem, only consume resources in vain, themselves without offering. However, it turns out that the species consisting of only parthenogenetic females (which bring offspring, without needing fertilization), as a rule, quickly die out.

At the 294th meeting of the Federation Council, the Federal Law “On Amendments to Article 13 of the Federal Law “On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation” and Article 256 of the Federal Law “On the Procedure for Exit from the Russian Federation and Entry into the Russian Federation” was approved.” This federal law was presented by Konstantin Surkov, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation.

On April 1, news appeared that Patriarch Kirill addressed the rector of Moscow State University with a letter in which he supported the initiative of the staff and students of the Faculty of Law to build a church on the territory of the university [1]. This, in turn, caused outrage among many people connected with Moscow State University in one way or another.

Recently, Foreign Minister Lavrov said the following in his speech: “Tolstoy said that the answer to the challenge of Peter’s modernization was the genius of Pushkin.” It sounded so modernized (the words challenge, modernization) that I thought: the minister must have taken this fragment from a speech that was originally written in English some time ago, so that the Russian quote itself had already been forgotten.

Tit. Photo from the site www.glendining.eu Spring soon. Previously, we rejoiced at her, now we are afraid: what if the heat will be? And this is very likely, because spring temperatures are slowly growing over the past forty years. Not only people suffer from global warming. According to ecologists, it leads to the extinction of many species, but, it turns out, the same warming helps some types to adapt to the changes that are taking place.

So, officials often say that money should be spent on practically significant results, that Russia is too poor a country to support fundamental science. “You provide practically significant developments, not publications,” this is how one could formulate the slogan of these officials and deputies. A more specific reproach is that, despite the increase in funding for science in general, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in particular, in 2005-2009.

The topic of high and low salaries in Russian universities is continued by Vladimir Volokhonsky, senior lecturer at the Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University. The era of Rector Kropachev will undoubtedly go down in the history of St. Petersburg State University as very interesting. I cannot clearly explain why, however, despite the established opinion in society about the atmosphere of horror, bureaucracy and authoritarianism at St.

Photo from the site listadeprehistoria.blogspot.com On April 11, in Kurksville (Missouri), without having to live up to eighty years, Lewis Binford, the patriarch of American archeology, died in the hands of his daughter and his sixth wife. It was one of the most famous and cited modern archaeologists. Immediately the society of American archeology established the Lewis R. Binford Foundation to encourage scientific reasoning in archeology aimed at developing critical thinking.