Announcement of the issue “Plan according to the shaft or shaft according to the plan?” Mikhail Gelfand and Ivan Ekonomov reflect on the state assignment to the scientific institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences - pp. 2, 15 "I am absolutely independent" believes in and strives for What academician Alexey Khokhlov - page 3 Reform in big quotes Lev Beklemishev and Efim Khazanov on RAS reform — pp.

Doct. physical. sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Landau RAS Sergey Korshunov cast a slightly more close look at the contribution of Russian researchers to the world stream of scientific publications. Since the low share of Russian publications in international reviewed magazines was called one of the motives of the so -called “RAS Reform”, I had a desire to look at the extent to which this manifests itself in various fields of science.

Scientific journalist Alexei Ognev visited the presentation of the Dissernet project, held on November 7, 2013 as part of the discussion club of the design laboratory of the Higher Superior Anti-Corruption Policy under the leadership of Elena Panfilova. He wrote about the most interesting moments of this meeting in his report for the TRV-NAUKA, and Ignat Solovey kindly presented several photographs. See his full photo report in Facebook [1].

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Image JASIEK KRZYSZTOFIAK / Nature [4] Two groups of researchers for the first time managed to measure the mass of exoplanets the size of the Earth [1, 2]. We are talking about the planet Kepler-78b, the diameter of which is only not much more earthly, and the mass assessment ranges from 1.69 to 1.86 mass of the Earth. She turns near the star in the constellation Swan at a distance of 400 light years from us.

In December 2012, writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya sent an open letter to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Medinsky, and was not heard. We decided to remind readers about this letter, because, in fact, Lyudmila Evgenievna addressed it not to an official, but to society.

About how the reform of science under the leadership of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky at the Russian Institute of History of Arts (St. Petersburg), a candidate of art history, former senior researcher at the sector of relevant problems of the modern art culture of this institute , Igor Vddovenko, was taking place. He was dismissed from RII on October 16, 2013. Stage 1.

The journal of cosmology shared a funny article by British researchers [1], which claims that they were able to find traces of aliens from outer space in the stratosphere at an altitude of more than 25 km. No, these are not little green men in a flying saucer. The Journal of Cosmology, although famous for its unusualness, is still not to that extent.

Under the sign of enlightenment On November 21, 2013, the enlightener awards will be held, at which we will learn the names of the main enlighteners of this year. Recall that one of the laureates of the Award of 2009 was the member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leonid Ponomarev and his book “Under the sign of Quantum”. This is a truly legendary book, because it was translated into 16 languages, and in many countries it is used as a manual on the history of physics.

Cand. Biol. The sciences, a researcher at the Department of Zoology of the Vertebratic Faculty of Magic University of Moscow State University Pavel Kvartalnov talks about his observations in the tropics of Vietnam. Two ants eat Krayt Two ants ( Oecophylla spp .) Inhabit the tropical forests of the Old World. They told me about stinging bites of these insects when I was just about to go to Vietnam to work in the Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Center.

Dogs, just like people, are susceptible to this terrible disease. Like diabetes, which requires constant therapeutic intervention to avoid the death of the animal. Unlike humans, the signs of diabetes in dogs have their own characteristics. First of all, there is an increased need to drink plenty of fluids, which is called polyuria, as well as increased urine output, which is called polydipsia.

Candlers reflecting on what will change at school with the onset of paid educational services. physical mat. Sciences, head of the department of mathematics of the boarding school "Intellectual" Alexei Sibnev . There was a rumor that from next year all the training hours in schools over the basic will become paid. It’s easy to believe in this rumor, as too many papers are accepted and propaganda statements have been expressed - the soil is preparing.

The TRV-hobby continues to publish the answers of the “refuseniks”-members of the Academy of Sciences, who declared their disagreement to join the new “RAS” if the law is adopted in the form in which it was introduced in the first reading [1-2]. What do academicians and members of the science who signed this statement think about the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the situation with science and education in the country now, after three months?

The Government of the Russian Federation, by Resolution No. 979 of November 1, 2013, approved new rules for inspection and monitoring of scientific organizations ( http://government.ru/media/files/41d49e9b662b95c8613a.pdf ). We publish the statement of the Commission for Public Control over the progress and results of reforms in the field of science, adopted at a meeting on November 11, 2013.

Another story about RGSU, MFUA and RAO Recently, the Dissernet community has turned its attention to the academic performance of the leadership of two capital universities, which are popularly called “family” universities. These are the Russian State Social University (RGSU) and the Moscow University of Finance and Law (formerly the Academy, MFLA). One is a state university, the other is not. But this does not change matters, because they issue diplomas of the same state standard.