Against the laws of spring It seemed that with the advent of spring it was time to put the snow. But due to human intervention, this law of nature is annually violated: simple storage of snow removed from city streets can be created by snowfields who easily experience summer. At first glance, these innocent dumps do not pose much practical interest and even more threat to ecology.

Dear editors ! Recently, I got acquainted with a document of colossal intellectual power, directly relating to science. This is a thing, I’ll tell you right, it’s stronger than Goethe's “Faust”! But about everything in order. Once, in ancient times, scientists worked without plans and performance indicators, by a hunch. At the present stage of the development of civilization, science has acquired industrial nature, and millions of people are engaged in research activities throughout the world.

Torraceed slopes of the hills in the vicinity of Shimla. Photo by A. Andreev Lev Borkin, Head of the Himalayan Scientific Research Center St. Petersburg Union of Scientists I recall our first expedition to the Western Himalayas in 2011 [1] . After a long pleasant preparations and a languid anticipation from the planned plans, finally the day of September 28 came, when it was still darkened, about three in the morning, we (11 people) flew to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.

More than a month has passed since the fire in the INION RAS building . During this time, a lot was done - and most importantly, work in emergency conditions was established . In the very first days after access to the injured storage sections , the institute’s employees appreciated the scale of the tragedy. It turned out that the complex part of the INION RAS Foundation amounted to 2.32 million copies, or 15.7% of the total .

Sergey Pulinets At the request of the Trv-Feature, the chief researcher at IKI RAS (Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Sergey Pulinets talked with the head of the space weather forecasts of the Izmi RAS Sergey Gaidashom and the head. The analytical department of the Institute of Applied Geophysics of Roshydromet Vyacheslav Burov about the polar radiance observed in the Middle Strip Russia on March 17, 2015 (see also an article by B.

Valery Adzhiev On March 11, 2015, the so -called reputational world university rating (WRR - World Reputation Rankings 2015 ) [1] made the authoritative British weekly Times Higher Education ( The ). This rating appeared in 2011; Three years ago, I analyzed the results of the 2012 rating on the pages of the TRV-hunger [2] . In the next two years, there was no much sense to return to this rating: according to its very definition of reputation, including universities, it is very stable.

It seemed that with the arrival of spring it was time for the snow to melt. But due to human intervention, this law of nature is violated every year: simply storing snow removed from city streets can create snowfields that easily survive the summer. At first glance, these innocent dumps do not pose any particular practical interest, much less an environmental threat...

Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov, 1989. Photo: Gueorgui Pinkhassov/Magnum Photos/Agency.photographer.ru, from the site hro.org Alexander Drozdov, cand. Geogr. Sciences, Vedas. scientific. sore.

Boris Stern On the evening of March 17, leaving 90 km south of Moscow from the house, I was surprised at the strange clouds illuminated by the green light. A minute later it became clear that this was not a cloud at all - along the entire northern side of the sky, a bright polar radiance spread almost to Zenit (I know well how it looks, repeatedly observed it from 60 ° to 70 ° C.).

Kira Sorokina, Cand. physical. sciences, Art. scientific. sore. Institute of Crystallography. A.V. Shubnikova RAS, editor of the Department of Physics and Mathematics of the magazine "Nature" I learned with chagrin that the science magazine “Science in Focus” stopped published. Another ray of light went out in our all and more dark space. But a couple of statements from an interview with the former editor -in -chief of the publication Yegor Bykovsky [1] causes a desire to argue. E.

Photo by A. Kryamyskoy On November 3, 2014, Arkady Viktorovich Kryimsky , mathematician, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, my father died. He was a talented scientist and artist, poet, writer, in general, a real creator, a man with a boundless fantasy and a charge of warm optimism. For me, my father was the main teacher, a life guide and support. <...> My father, Arkady Kryami, was born in 1949 in a family of Russian emigrants in China, in the city of Tsindao.

Rice. M. Smagina Victor Voronkov, President of the Central Administration The Ministry of Justice of St. Petersburg ordered the Center for Independent Sociological Research ( CNSI) from St. Petersburg until April 20 to register as the so- called foreign agent. The agent’s criteria are named in the law baked by the State Duma- receiving funding from the border and at the same time engaging in “political activity”.

On March 21, 55 years old is a doct. physical. Sciences, Vedas. scientific. sore. IPPI RAS Andrei Rostovtsev - physics, one of the founders and creator of libraries for the Dissernet project. In addition to the actual scientific work, the preparation of scientific articles and graduate students, Andrei Africanovich, to identify fake dissertations and owners of academic degrees, two software complexes on Perles were created - “Disposerus” and “Mill”.

Announcement of the issue Paper dust in the eyes Iskander Yasaveev on de-bureaucratization of higher education - page 2 Polar show Boris Stern , Anatoly Petrukovich , Sergei Pulinets , Sergei Gaidash and Vyacheslav Burov about the phenomenon of auroras at unusual latitudes - pp. 3, 5 Reputation rating Valery Adzhiev on how to interpret the success of Moscow State University - pp. 4–5 From British Simla to Hindu Sarahan Lev Borkin about a scientific expedition to the Western Himalayas - pp.

From March 1 to August 31, 2015, the receipt was opened to participate in the competition under the program “For Women in Science”, conducted by L'Oreal with the support of UNESCO and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Women-scientists, candidates of science under the age of 35, working in Russian scientific institutes and universities in the following disciplines: physics, chemistry, medicine and biology can become applicants for the scholarship.