Vladimir Plungyan. Photo by Natalia Chetverikova ("Polit.ru") Our newspaper calls for readers to join the discussion of books that have fallen on the long list of the Enlightener Prize of this year. If you want to express your opinion about one of the books, then send them to the editor's address: info@trvscience.ru . Successful reviews and comments, both critical and positive, will certainly be published.

Announcement of the issue The beginning of the war: Petrik against the academicians (p. 1) Tatiana Kosinova On June 17, 2011, a hearing was held in the Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg on the claim of Viktor Petrik against academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Petrik claims that members of the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience slandered him, and demands to recover from each defendant an amount of more than one and a half billion rubles.

In the photo: above the left - acad. E.B. Aleksandrov (photo from the site www.lebed.com), at the top right - acad. V.E. Zakharov (photo by N. Cheveverikova, “Polit.ru”). Below on the left - Acad. E.P. Krulyakov (photo by N. Demin). In the center: V.I. Petrik, his lawyer A.G. Mikonin, on the contrary, is the lawyer Akademikov A.V. Rammilovich in the courtroom. June 17, 2011, Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg (photo T.

The topic of emigration was relevant to me in the late 80s and early 90s. At this time, my parents’ friends were constantly leaving somewhere, giving those who remained behind a bunch of junk, saying goodbye forever, the parents themselves were discussing where they should emigrate, there were some OVIRs, anticipation of some calls and some general nervousness.

Astrophysicists from the University of Hawaii, Yale, the University of Michigan and the University of Ratgers first discovered traces of many black holes that arose during the first billion years after the Big Bang [1]. Until now, it was possible to register only individual black holes of this generation, which showed themselves by the radiation of the quasar they born.

Congratulating a well-known publicist friend on a published book, I asked him if he would recommend me to his publisher: my usual publishers were already working on my books, and I had something else to say.

Open issues of war This newspaper’s number goes on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (June 22, 1941). In the February 72 of February 15, 2011, an article by the historian Boris Sokolov “History of the Great Patriotic War as a science” was published in the February 15, 2011, which caused violent discussions in blogs and even discontent among a number of our readers.

From June 1 to June 5, 2011, the World Science Festival was held in New York. Scientists, writers, journalists, actors and ordinary people gathered with the intention of learning more about the unknown and being surprised by what is already known. The festival featured more than 40 events, including lectures, discussions, theater performances, exhibitions, music and dance.

Human rights activist, mathematician-programmer, close colleague of A.D. Sakharov Alexander Pavlovich Lavut and his wife Sima Borisovna Mostinskaya , graduates of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, talk about how the Great Patriotic War began and ended for them (this publication is an electronic supplement to the interview about A.D. Sakharov, TrV-81 dated June 21, 2011 G.) : – How did you find out about the war? A.P. Lavut: I was 12 years old.

Dear editors! Unscrupulous and malicious individuals periodically initiate various bad conversations about the Academy of Sciences. The most frostbitten say that this is a useless legacy of the totalitarian era and that it is of no use - like milk from a goat. Others argue that stagnant tendencies have prevailed in the Academy and that the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences is similar to Brezhnev’s Politburo.

When Jonathan Swift composed “Gulliver’s travels”, he could not know about future experiments in the field of vision neuropsychology. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, had no idea about this. Of course, no one knows their heroes better than writers, but one cannot but notice that similar situations in books, transmitted through the perception of Alice and Gulliver, differ dramatically.

Articles in HTML: 08/30/2011 PDF: TrV No. 17 (86N) for 2011: “Evolutionary leap” Announcement of the issue Evolutionary Leap (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko The author of the editorial recalls large projects financed by the state and at the same time successfully disrupted. Questionable projects of the nearest future are also listed...

On June 15 , 2011, the T2K collaboration, consisting of approximately 500 physicists representing 59 organizations (including the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences) from 12 countries, announced the results of the first stage of an accelerator experiment to search for neutrino oscillations, which began in January last year and was forced to be suspended at the time of the catastrophic earthquake on March 11, 2011.

Comment on the article by L.S. We asked several scientists and publishers for Klein . We publish received comments. Vladimir Vaksman, director of the publishing house "Vek 2" In principle, almost everything is written correctly in the article, it’s just that the author is dissatisfied with the situation. What exactly are you dissatisfied with? Small fees and the fact that publishers are not lining up for the right to publish his book.

A.P. Lavut (left) and A.Yu. Semenov recall Sakharov. Photo by N. Demina On the eve of the anniversary of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, we met with human rights activist Alexander Pavlovich Lavut, a graduate of the Mehmat MSU, who worked with S.A. Kovalev in the interfacial laboratory of mathematical methods in biology in I.M. Gelfand at Moscow State University. Kovalev and Lavat were then forced to leave there so as not to put the laboratory under attack.