On the night of July 1, 2015, Vladimir Alexandrovich Yadov died in the Moscow Region after a long illness at the 87th year of his life. They say that there are no indispensable people. This is not true, each person is indispensable. Who can be replaced by a departed friend, teacher? The departure of the leader of the Leningrad School of Sociology is really an irreparable loss for Russian sociology, for the sociological community, for his students, associates and friends.

George Soros "Patriotic Stop List" and Soros funds Russian parliamentarians approved the adoption of a “patriotic stop list” prohibiting international philanthropic and human rights activities in Russia. The list begins with the Soros Foundation. The ban on this fund is due to the fact that it allegedly influenced strategically important areas - education and science.

Anatoly Vershik, laureate of the Dynasty Foundation Prize “Life dedicated to mathematics” (2014) I will not repeat how much important and useful for science, education and education was made by D. B. Zimin's “Dynasty” fund. This was a wide range of scientists, teachers, popularizers, and now, when the authorities insulted the fund “And, therefore, those to whom it helped”, recognizing the Fund by a foreign agent, now everyone knows about his disinterested and noble activity.

Kovtun is the son of a Soviet general, who was introduced by the KGB into Germany. But the German police, after the murder of Litvinenko, discovered a large amount of polonium 210 in the apartment of Kovtun’s mother-in-law. For some reason, he or the mother-in-law opened this vessel with polonium. They contaminated the entire apartment. Therefore, he was quickly deprived of German citizenship. This isotope of polonium is very expensive, because K. receives only artificially.

Lake Tsorari near the village of Korzov. June 18, 2015 Lev Borkin, Head of the Himalayan Scientific Research Center St. Petersburg Union of Scientists Alexander Andreev, Dokt. Biol. sciences, ornithologist After a rather tiring way from Nughar to Lech with the intersection of five passes through the high ridges of the Western Himalayas (see the previous article in the Trav-hunger No.

Dmitry Zimin. Photo of the press service "Dynasty" Our newspaper turned to leading Russian scientists with a request to share their thoughts what to do after/ without the Dynasty Foundation. “What are the alternatives? What, in your opinion, can be done to at least to some extent compensate for the damage from the closure of the fund? ” - we asked colleagues. The post of this discussion was the post of editor-in-chief of the Trav-hunger Boris Stern in Facebook.

At Blok No. 2 we were allowed to stay only a few minutes. Photo by Pallava Bagla Once in the alienation zone and into the territory of the Pukushima-1 nuclear station, you will immediately feel like the hero of the “picnic on the sidelines” of the Strugatsky brothers. As in the novel, you will be allowed to move inside a closed zone only together with specially trained people after briefing and with constant control of the radiation level.

People want justice, and not only for themselves. They often intervene when the interests of third parties are infringed, and society maintains special services to maintain order. All this does not come cheap, but people pay the costs. What motivates them: the arguments of the mind or the call of the heart?

Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science On Friday, July 17, 2015, the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov expressed his attitude to the closure of the Dynasty Foundation: “ This is a big loss for Russian science - and not only from the point of view of money, although they invested quite decent means, but also from the point of view of those standards, quite high, support for projects, assessing the work of scientists that they set.

Konstantin Severinov, Dokt. Biol. sciences, head. laboratory of molecular genetics of microorganisms of the Institute of Biology of the Gena RAS and a laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Several years ago, the program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Molecular and Cellular Biology” has undergone significant reduction. This happened against the backdrop of the economic crisis.

Dmitry Vibe, Astrochemist, head. Department of Physics and Evolution of Stars of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences So, a date with Pluto, which filled the word “fleeting” with a new meaning, took place. The dwarf planet, the rapid approximation of which we enthusiastically observed over the past months, is now also rapidly moving away. However, as in many other experiments, real science begins only now that the technique has fulfilled its purpose.

People wish justice, and not only in relation to themselves. They often intervene when they infringe on the interests of third parties, and the company contains special services to maintain order. All this is expensive, but people go to costs. What drives them: the arguments of the mind or the call of the heart? In search of an answer to this question, the psychologists of the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology of the Society of Max Planck (Germany), Manchester and St.

Vladimir Kopeliovich, Vedas. scientific. sore. Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences A new chapter appeared in the drama with the participation of Pentakvarkov. The LHCB collaboration announced the likely observation of PTNA PCC PCCs with hidden charm and quark composition C C̄ UUD (a pair of fascinated quark and antique, two U-quuities and one D-quark), which occur in the decay of the neutral baron λ0b → PCK- [1] .

Image NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech (artist's imagination) The NASA Cosmic Observatory “Kepler” ( www.nasa.gov/kepler ) managed to find the planet the size of the ground in the “zone of life” by a star similar to the sun (spectral class G2). It is noted that the celestial body that received the Kepler-452B designation made it possible to bring a general account of confirmed exoplanets opened by Kepler, up to 1030 (and all in need of additional research of candidates 4696).

Robert Nizhny Novgorod, doct. Econ. sciences, head. Laboratory of the Institute of Management Problems named after V.A. Trapeznikova RAS How many times have they insisted to the world that the appropriation of authorship, plagiarism in the scientific environment is bad, vile, violates the personal non-property rights of genuine authors and contradicts the federal law “On Science and Scientific and Technical Policy”.