Tatyana Pichugina In the Soviet Union, the philosophy of science flourished, accumulating highly qualified scientists from different fields. They preferred to criticize Popper and Kun in a quiet harbor and not to rush on the front line of communist propaganda. Now, of course, the times are different, not up to philosophy.

Big Hell (Indicator Indicator). ("Wikipedia") Big Hell ( Indicator Indicator) , a relatively small African bird, has long been an object of attention of researchers from around the world. A recently published study of [1] scientists from Cambridge University and South Africa illustrates an interesting phenomenon - a mutually beneficial partnership between honeycasic birds and people.

Dear editors ! In August, socio-political life freezes, high-ranking officials can finally take a break from worries about the people in their yachts and islands. Officials are easier to take a breath in the resorts of Europe and America, but if it is impossible, then in Sochi. Well, we, who have not deserved something more serious, are sitting in the dachas. In a figurative, of course, sense we sit - voluntarily.

Our state does not get tired of surprising its attitude to science and scientists. The media bring to us more and more amazing news that would be very funny if they were not so serious. Here, for example. Where are we going with a friend's heel Rice. V. Bogorada “Fano asks the president to attribute the right to the state secret of the development of academic scientists from institutes entrusted to the agency,” Kommersant reports ( Kommersant.ru/doc/3054852 ).

Necessary preface About two weeks ago, a letter came to the editor: Hello! Some time ago, MGIMO and HSE jointly prepared a four -volume encyclopedic directory “Political Systems of Modern States”. This publication is positioned by the creators as a solid help in the training of diplomatic workers, regionalists, political scientists, journalists, etc. and is actively introduced into the educational process.

I had the pleasure of working with this man for more than 32 years and never ceased to be amazed by the manifestations of his genius, each time discovering new facets of his many talents. What is remembered first of all when he has not been with us for almost 15 years, and there is only a wonderful monument at the intersection of Leninsky and Universitetsky Avenues and the acute emotions of parting have long subsided?

Announcement of the issue Waiting for great harm The state is attacking science - pp. 2, 3, 7 From science to product A rare example of successful innovative entrepreneurship in Russia - pp. 4–5 The Age of A. M. Prokhorov A story from a friend and colleague - pp. 5–6 Academic discussion Why a good deed was not brought to its logical conclusion - pp.

(Ending. Beginning in the TRV-HUNDER No. 209) Vladimir Mordovich, Director for Science and Technologies of Infra Technology LLC In the previous issue of the TRV-hobby, we introduced readers to the Infra Technology company and its scientific director, a doct. chem. Sciences Vladimir Mordkovich . The company is engaged in the commercialization of scientific developments conducted in the department of new chemical materials and nanotechnologies in TISNUM (Troitsk), led by Mordovich.

Dear editors! At the beginning of July 2016, our family vacationed in Abkhazia. We were surprised to see dried boxwood groves in Pitsunda. According to information from locals, the boxwood was eaten by a moth that was brought to Sochi in 2012 for landscaping at Olympic venues. The moth has no natural enemies on the Black Sea coast. I personally saw moth caterpillars devouring boxwood leaves in the Psyrtskha gorge in New Athos (July 2016).

Joint project of the Evolution Foundation and Ibiology.org: Seven video courses about unicellular, vertebrates, HIV, neural connections and the origin of life on Earth The Evolution Foundation began the implementation of the program to translate a high-quality foreign popular science media content into Russian. The first project of the program is Russian subtitles for seven courses about the modern biology of the famous American site ibiology.org .

Ref . No. 16-06 dated July 28, 2016 STATEMENT The Council of the Interregional Society of Scientific Workers (ONR) shares deep concern about the progress of the hasty and ill-considered “reform of academic science” expressed by almost 150 members of the RAS and professors of the RAS in their address to the President of the Russian Federation.

Natalia Reznik The turtle is a symbol of slowness, security and stability, not without reason in some cosmogonic systems it holds the Earth, often even with elephants. The turtle found all these features thanks to the bone shell, an amazing structure that has no analogues in the modern animal world. The question of its origin does not give scientists to scientists for almost two centuries.

As we have already noted, the reform of the Academy of Sciences has not yet brought the great harm that it was aimed at. There was no clear idea. The resistance of scientists played a role, and the initiators of the reforms did not have the enthusiasm necessary to cause real harm. The leadership of FANO turned out to be quite good-natured and made contact with the Academy in making important decisions. The big move came down to increased bureaucracy.

Anna Muradova, Ph.D. Filol. sciences, Art. scientific. sore. Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences The events of recent years have dealt a big blow to Iraq's intellectual potential: many representatives of the intelligentsia, who are well -owned by foreign languages, go to the more prosperous corners of the planet in search of security.

24.07.2016 Mr. President! Russian fundamental science has been experiencing a crisis since the early 1990s, and not only due to the disastrous financial situation. For many years now, it has been subjected to unprecedented pressure from government agencies, which are launching more and more “reforms”, the result of which is its consistent degradation. Among them was the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) in 2013, when academic science was dealt an almost fatal blow.