In November 2014, the European University in St. Petersburg was 20 years old: on November 28, 1994, state registration of the university was held [1] . One of the creators and the first rector of EUSPB, sociologist Boris Maksimovich Firsov answered questions to the questions of the Trv-hunger . Talked by Natalia Demina . - EU marks 20 years. What do you consider the most important achievements of the university over the years? - Three concepts generalize my ideas about the modern university.

N. Ivanova-Gladilshchikova and Director of the Central Executive Committee V. Ovchinnikov. Photo by E. Mercomov Against the background of the continuing destruction of the system of Russian education and the December collapse of the ruble, it seems that it is naive to talk about the upcoming death of eight schools for musically gifted children.

Olga Solomin, member of the Russian RAS, deputy. Director of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences: I want to congratulate everyone on the upcoming holiday and share a conceptual New Year's poem, the genre of which is defined as a “pie”. If you still do not know such a genre, then type “pies”, “feather” or “piracy” in “Google”, and you will fall out a huge number of funny poems. This is a lovely Russian invention, Russian hockey. The genre appeared ten years ago.

"Russia slides in the Middle Ages" Sergey Nechaev, doct. physical .- Mat. Sciences ( Universite Paris- Sud, Fian and NRU HSE): - What are the main results of the year in science for you personally ? -Apparently, the strongest impression is from the fact that it became clear that the Gaussian distribution is not the only possible distribution that exists in nature.

Lev Klein The search for analogies is the favorite sport of archaeologists. I found some incomprehensible little thing-the first thing you are looking for analogues: similar finds from other archaeologists, in literature. He helped-then you can already solve something. Maybe one of the analogues has a date, an explanation or something will come out of the finding of finds.

Alexey Vodovozov, Medical journalist Nothing human scientists is alien. They also like to joke, although they do it somewhat peculiar. In 1982, Stevens Loku, the then chief world of the British Medical Journal ( BMJ ) , occurred to the idea to show readers the “other side of medicine”. A selection of funny studies, which, however, according to all the laws of the genre, was originally planned as a single action and was timed to the Christmas holidays.

M. Gelfand. Photo by S. Korobkova (EUSPB) At the St. Petersburg European University, the second conference of the Russian scientific diaspora was held on December 5–6.

TrV-Nauka contains an article by V.I., Doctor of Biological Sciences from Moscow State University. Muronets [1] with criticism of the book by L.A. Zhivotovsky (incomparably milder than the devastating analysis of this anti-scientific work by E.I. Kolchinsky, director of the St.

Rebekah Frumkin In December, the State Hermitage celebrated its 250th anniversary. A significant role in preserving and increasing our national treasure was played by real workers - museum employees, one of whom devoted her article to Rebeka Frumkin . Many years ago - most likely, in 1958 - in Leningrad, I bought a book by M.I. Shcherbacheva about the Dutch still life.

Many of us now feel something like the musicians on the deck of the Titanic: the ship has already hit an iceberg, in general, we are sinking - along with our violins and flutes, but for some reason it is terribly important that the orchestra plays everything correctly notes, observed all the nuances...

In this issue of Trinity Option, it is difficult to circumvent the policy of the newspaper in silence, pretending that nothing significant has happened since the time of the previous issue. During this time, reckoning for sins began - their own and strangers.

Irina Levontina What to hide, many of us feel like the musicians on the Titanic deck: the ship has already flown into the iceberg, in general, we are drowning-along with its violins and flutes, but for some reason it is terribly important that the orchestra plays all notes correctly, keep all the strokes and all the nuances. Of course, this metaphor, especially if you start developing it, is greatly lame, but it conveys my mood, at least, it conveys.

Anna Muradova, Ph.D. Filol. sciences, Art. scientific. sore. Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences When we speak of sociolinguistic problems and how certain languages ​​disappear from the linguistic map of the world as a result of deportation or extermination of various ethnic groups, we rarely think about how it looks “from the inside”.

S. Smirnov, A. Vershik. Photo by S. Korobkova (EUSPB) After the conference of the scientific diaspora, Anatoly Verkik gave a TRV-hunger a small interview. Talked by Natalia Demina . - It seems to you, will the conference of the scientific diaspora in 2018 take place? - Most likely, no, and here, as always, two options: good, but unlikely and more likely and very bad. Which of them depends on the general (political, economic, scientific) situation in Russia.

Sergey Lando at the conference of the scientific diaspora. Photo by S. Korobkina (EUSPB) Logo Faculty From the site Math.hse.ru About what tasks are faced with the faculty of mathematics of the Higher School, what are the results of the conference of the memory of V.I. Arnold in Toronto and the conferences of the scientific diaspora in St. Petersburg, we talked with Dean, Professor of the Higher School of Economics, and Dokt. physical. Sciences Sergey Lando . Talked by Natalia Demina .