L. Polishchuk The question of why mammoths died out, invariably causes interest in both the scientific community and the general public [1]. Perhaps this is due to the fact that it is not there and, most likely, cannot be an unambiguous answer. That is, there is an answer, but it breaks up into several “subunits”, and what weight to give each of these private decisions remains unclear. The definition of this “weight” consists, in fact, the main difficulty in the answer to this question.

Rice. M. Bondarenko This number of the TRV-hobby is devoted to discussing the intermediate results of the Reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which began three years ago. Several members of the club on July 1 took part in the analysis of the current situation in the field of science. We publish an interview with one of its most active members, members. RAS, Director of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dokt. Geogr. Sciences Olga Solomina .

Tatyana Pichugina, scientific journalist. Photo by I. Nightingale “Are there any black holes?”, “Is Einstein right?” Such headlines were popular half a century ago not only in the media, but also in the scientific literature. And now they can be found from time to time in the most prestigious scientific journals in the world. And all because there is still no firm evidence of the existence of black holes based on observations.

We consider it our civil and professional duty to express our attitude towards the persecution of the Perm Center for Civic Education and Human Rights, which is headed by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Andrei Borisovich Suslov. The reason for the campaign waged against the Center for several months was the publication in 2015 of a methodological manual for teachers “Studying the history of Stalin’s repressions in school” (authors and compilers - A. B. Suslov and M. V.

Dear editors ! Half a year has passed and the blessed time of vacations is approaching, when it would seem that you can relax and take a break from worries, waves of us all year. This always happens, from year to year: we, thinkers, like ordinary inhabitants, can indulge in thoughts about the world, Russia, science and beauty, observing how slowly potatoes grow on native six hundred parts.

The most important nuance of the perception of molecular biology in domestic realities: it is traditionally poorly taught, especially in comparison with the “classical” physics and mathematics, in schools and universities in Russia. In addition, in our country the bio- and pharmaceutical industry is very poorly developed - and in the absence of an industrial “order”, no standard approaches to basic education in these areas have developed.

Ekaterina Buz The idea that the real Faddeus Venediktovich Bulgarin (1789–1859) was somewhat different from his traditional in the school course of literature of the vile image of the traitor, coward and scammer, visited me twice. For the first time-when reading the death of Vazir-Mukhtar Tynyanov, where Bulgarin is depicted as a nasty person, but Griboedov’s closest friend. Having rummaged in the “Notes and extracts” by M. L.

Irina Yakutenko At the very end of June, more than a hundred Nobel laureates signed a letter that called on Greenpeace not to fight GMO (activists for some reason especially fiercely attack the “gold rice” enriched with vitamin A). The news was widely covered in the media: such a crowd of Nobeliats gathers in one place for the first time.

I was 14 years old when the war began, and nearly 18 when it ended. I remember all the war years well. The main sensations were hunger and cold. Well, with hunger everything is clear - 400 g of bread and some kind of cooking, the main component of which was potato peelings. But the food card was supposed to, if my memory serves me right, 1200 g of cereals, 400 g of butter, something for letter A, B. From time to time they were “thrown away” with one thing or another.

Ekaterina Zadirko, graduate of the Institute of Philology and History of the RSUSU At first glance, a comparison of the creativity of the Brothers Strugatsky and Stanislav Lem may seem like a trivial task. However, to date, it has not moved beyond the indication of the similarity of topics and situations and was explained by the influence of Lem on the Strugatsky.

Andrey Platonov. Mid-1930s This year, the second volume of the academic collected works of Andrei Platonov was published. With the participants of the Platonic group, who prepared this book for the publication,-the Correct. RAS, head. The department of the latest Russian literature and literature of the Russian abroad IMLI NAS Natalya Kornienko , her colleagues Elena Rozhentseva and Elena Antonova - the sociologist Alexander Nikulin talked . Andrey Platonov. Works. Volume two. 1926–1927.

Yu. Kovalev with his teacher, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences N. Kardashev, at the conference "Shklovsky 100". Photo by N. Demina It so happens that the request for a commentary on the article turns into a separate story. At the request of the TRV-hunger, comment on the opportunity to see the shadow from the black hole of the head.

Alexander Belavin Interview with Chl.-Cor. RAS, doct. physical. sciences, professor of independent Moscow University, ch. scientific. sore. Institute of Theoretical Physics. L. D. Landau RAS, ch. scientific. sore. Ippi RAS Alexander Belavin . Talked by Natalia Demina . - Three years have passed since the beginning of the reform of the RAS. What are the positive results of this reform, if they are, and what do you see negative? - I do not see positive, unfortunately. True, this was expected.

Leonid Volkov I, like many, have long admired the work of Dissernet, and what I can, I support it, but for the first time I moved into a new status of the “volunteer of the disserternet” in, one might say, personal reasons and in connection with one specific dissertation work.

Announcement of the issue “The first ballast is FANO itself” Members of the July 1 Club : Alexander Belavin , Viktor Vasiliev , Igor Volovich , Askold Ivanchik , Olga Solomina and Efim Khazanov on the interim results of the RAS reform - pp. 1–4 Andrey Platonov and our reality Conversation between Alexander Nikulin and scientists from the IMLI RAS about the preparation of the complete works of the writer - pp.