Rebekah Frumkin The French artist Henri Fanten Latures can hardly be considered little known : visitors to art museums almost certainly saw his still lifes. Mostly these are flowers, as well as fruits, less often - vegetables. Another thing is that as a genre of still life, we have long become interesting, neatly expressed, in the reverse proportion of its proximity to a photographic image. Therefore, you can shake your shoulders and go past a fan-ladour.

A wonderful Saturday day of October 11, while Moscow was warming in the last rays of the warm autumn sun, hundreds of worried parents, grandfathers and grandmothers, teachers and children gathered on Suvorov Square. All of them-from a schoolboy to the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences-came to the rally “In Defense of Moscow Education”, organized by the trade union of the boarding school “Intellectual”.

Alexander Andreev, Boinc.ru Site Administrator In June-July 2014, the next GRID 2014 conference was held in Dubna. The report of not quite ordinary topics was presented to the section of the Grid systems of personal computers and voluntary calculations. Representatives of the Center for Distributed Computing IPPI RAS talked about the first results of a sociological study conducted among Russian -speaking participants in voluntary distributed calculations (the so -called Cranchisian community).

Mikhail Kovalchuk, who so successfully manages ITEP and other scientific organizations entrusted to him by the Motherland, has another front of work. Apparently, someone decided that since he copes so well with organizing science, he should also be entrusted with organizing education.

Full version of the article. Every time plagiarism must be exposed, intra- or posthumously, but certainly exposed. And the sooner the better. The more authoritative the figure, the more necessary the exposure. Friend, teacher, benefactor - no connections should prevent exposure if you can expose. L.

TrV-Nauka publishes the second letter from A.A. Fursenko to the President of Russia V.V. Putin. The first letter from the Presidential Assistant, dated June 11, 2014, was published in issue No. 158, dated July 15, 2014. The same issue published scientists’ responses to Fursenko’s proposed measures : “Chief, everything is lost!” [ 12] .

Lev Klein Unlike previous periods, in Brezhnev time, no persecution of dissenters could calm the attempts of researchers (including archaeologists) to break out of the limits allocated by ideology. At any scientific discussion, the voices of opponents of the point of view approved by the leadership were heard, although it was difficult for them to break into the seal.

From September 15 to October 12, 2014, the All -Russian Tournament for Modeling of the Orbit spacecraft was held as part of the science festival. The game "Orbit" [1] was attended by almost 650 schoolchildren of 8-11 grades from 30 regions of Russia (in total 146 teams). All participants began with the qualifying stage: it lasted three weeks in an online mode. Every Monday to the teams who managed to go through the previous stages opened a new task.

Thomson Reuters and the Scientific Electronic Library (SEL) announced the launch of a joint project, Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), during which approximately a thousand of the best Russian scientific journals from the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) will be presented on the Web of Science (WoS) platform. as a regional index [1] .

Dear colleagues! In recent decades, the state has never considered education, science and culture of priority areas - although it often declared the opposite. And over time, in general, a full -scale offensive began - “optimization” of universities, reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other academies, the merger of schools, the liquidation of hospitals, etc. The library business did not seem to be an exception: since the spring around the scientific pedagogical library named after K.D.

Announcement of the issue “Chief, everything is gone - 2” TrV-Nauka publishes the second letter from A. Fursenko to V. Putin - page 2 “Let the world live beyond the schools!” Optimization of schools in Moscow resulted in several protest rallies, but mergers continue - pp.

In the Armenian city of Dilijan, this academic year has opened the International School of the United World Colleges. Who and what will be taught there , Karina Nazarevyan found out . Sixteen -year -old Nariyda Zeino (Obaida Zeino) from the Syrian city of Aleppo literally with a battle broke his way to foreign education. There is a war in his country, the city has problems with electricity and the Internet, and you need to apply and interview online.

On October 25, a rally in defense of education was held on Lermontov Square. This is the second meeting dedicated to this topic. The action took place in other cities as well. Systemic problems in education have united a variety of political forces - from the Left Front to Yabloko. Successive speakers spoke about illegal mergers of schools, about the fact that education is becoming paid, that education is not a commodity.

The last expedition S.V. Hinalug, 2008. Photo by A.V. Arkhipov On October 25, 2014, Sandro Vasilievich Kodzasov , Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosova, member of the International Phonetic Association. We publish an article by Alexander Arkhipov , dedicated to the memory of this wonderful scientist.

From the transcript of the X Congress of the Russian Union of rector , October 30 , 2014 . <...> N. Kropachev: Our Union of rector sometimes makes important decisions. You remember how an important decision was made recently, we helped the victims of the flood. I propose to make a decision and be sure to oblige all members of our organization to organize assistance to universities in Donbass and Lugansk. V. Sadovnichy: Thank you, Nikolai Mikhailovich.