The main and decisive layout of the newspaper, when the outlines of the issue are finally outlined, takes place on Fridays. Last Friday fell on February 8th. I don’t know about my colleagues, but I (being the managing editor of the issue you are holding in your hands) did not remember at all that today this date is not simple, but significant - Russian Science Day and it seems like we should congratulate each other and generally celebrate.

A few days ago, Artyom Viktorovich Kozmin (1976-2013) was tragically, a young, gifted and vivid scientist-folklorist, an anthropologist, a culturologist who has a devotion to science and the unusual breadth of scientific interests.

Last Friday fell on February 8th. I don’t know about my colleagues, but I didn’t remember at all that today this date is not simple, but significant - the Day of Russian Science and it seems like we should congratulate each other and generally celebrate.

Vladimir Putin signed the Decree “On awarding Prizes the Presidential of the Russian Federation in the field of science and innovation for young scientists for 2012 ” ( www.kremlin.ru/acts/17452 ).

A competition to receive grants for leading scientists to conduct research more in Russia attracted than 700 applications. The submission of applications for participation in the 3rd competition for grants from the Government of the Russian Federation for state support of scientific research conducted under the guidance of leading scientists in Russian educational and scientific institutions has ended.

Rebekah Frumkin Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov (1903–1977) is known to us mainly thanks to the film "New Moscow" (1937). Postcards, mass magazines, anthology, calendars - everywhere one could see this reproduction. The picture conveys a festive, spring mood in the center of Moscow on the eve of May 1.

How to get into the top list of the ratings of leading universities in the world? What are the main recipes for success? This is based on a comparative study of the world bank is reflected by the professor, head of the molecular modeling group of materials of the Higher School of Mining Nantes (France) Andrei Kalinichev .

On page 5 of this issue there is a long interview with physicist Valentin Danilov, who has just been released from prison. But the organs are still “vigilant”. “Echo of Moscow” ( echo.msk.ru/news/1005716-echo.html ) reports on a new trial of “spy” scientists. In the summer of 2012, the St. Petersburg City Court sentenced two employees of the Baltic State Technical University.

After reading in the Triv-Haw about the death of Vladimir Bagotsky , I would like to place my article about him in the newspaper, who first saw the light in the summer of 2007 in the low-trip free Russian newspaper Vazy in San Francisco. The newspaper is not published now, and the text is preserved only on the computer. The content of this article, based on live communication, is unlikely to be known to employees of V. S. Bagotsky, respecting his memory.

Dear editors ! Amazing events are being created in our field of training scientific and educational personnel - resignation, landing. It is as if we are not talking about a great country that is developing confidently and will soon overtake all competitors, but about some banana republic, where everything is sold and bought, and criminal elements are in power. Why it happened is the question that I ask when reading the decisions of the ministerial commissions and articles of journalists.

Valentin Danilov The newspaper of the TRV-hunger has repeatedly written about the fate of a physicist, the former director of the thermophysical center of the Krasnoyarsk State Technical University, Kand. physical. Sciences Valentina Danilov , who in 2004 was sentenced to 13 years in prison for state treason in the form of "issuing state secrets". His business has become one of the most high-profile processes over the "schpios scientists" in the last decade.

At numerous requests from the scientific and educational community, we are publishing a list of members of two expert councils, who for many years “did not notice” that very strange dissertations were being passed through them (however, one could say more directly - “fake”, if you call a spade a spade , as Deputy Minister of Education and Science Igor Fedyukin calls...) Composition of the dissertation council D.

In December 2012, two Preprons of the WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) collaboration was published, which summarize the results of the 9-year work of the space station for “cartography” of relict microwave, which was emitted by recombinating plasma, when the Universe was 380 thousand years old. In Fig. 1 - a map of the sky shot by WMAP, where the color reflects the heterogeneity of the temperature of the relic.

Mausoleum in the picture of Vereshchagin Remember, in the film "Pokrovsky Gate" Kostya, finally meeting his true love, tears with his girls, inventing for each reason that he supposedly leaves? Then a very ancient city was found at the bottom of Lake Titikak, then the skull of the horse of the prophetic Oleg was found, otherwise he is going to look for Tamerlan’s grave.

From the editorial office: The text presented below is just a particular case of one big problem, which once again became the theme of the number. This is some kind of polyphonic, indestructible hydra: in the place of a couple of severed heads, a whole new bush grows and blooms. The fact that the heads of Hydra is still sometimes chopped-cannot but rejoice.