Dear editors ! Spring and autumn are difficult times, especially for people with an unstable psyche. No wonder academics hold their meetings in the fall and spring. And passions at the academy sometimes boil serious. But this time, it seems, academicians surpassed themselves. Judge for yourself: the elections of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the nose, three candidates are available, everything is calm - the leader is confident to the finish line.

Alexander Khokhlov On March 14, 2017, the Goskosmos State Corporation announced the second open competition for the selection of candidates for a detachment of astronauts. Information about the recruitment was posted on the website of the state corporation [1] and on the website of the Center for Training of astronauts named after Yu. A. Gagarin [2]. According to the representatives of Roscosmos [3], it is planned to select 6-8 candidates for astronauts.

We publish scientists' comments on the General Assembly of the Russian Academy of Sciences on March 20, 2017: Lev Beklemishev, member. RAS, member of the club "July 1", deputy. Director for scientific work Mian: As for the general conclusions, the system degradation says how it reacts to arising crises. Was the Academy reaction to the 2013 crisis adequate? No-unlikely, perhaps, the more healthy reaction of the scientific community, which tried to somehow help and support.

This article is an attempt to reconstruct, in chronological order, from media publications and eyewitness accounts, how the overthrow of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Fortov, was planned. Apparently, this special operation began to be developed back in November-December 2016.

Vladimir Fortov at the General Assembly of the Russian Academy of Sciences on March 20, 2017, still president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Photo by N. Demina This article is an attempt to restore in chronological order according to publications in the media and eyewitnesses, as the overthrow of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov was conceived. Apparently, this special operation began to be developed back in November-December 2016.

Natalia Reznik The murder is an extraordinary event. Few animals kill relatives - with the exception of humans, of course. Most of these cases are described for chimpanzees, the most studied species of monkeys, but among them the killings rarely occur. As a rule, monkeys die in intergroup clashes, to date, only nine cases are known when the chimpanzees have accepted violent death from brothers in the group. Researchers have two main hypotheses about the causes of these murders.

Boris Stern The history of resistance to the development of the territory of the Pulkovo observatory continues. Our previous publication on this occasion was in the number of the TRV-hunger of January 31 [1]. The selection included the opinions of Alexei Moiseev (special astrophysical observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Vladimir Surdin (State Astronomical Institute named after P.K. Sternberg Moscow State University) and the author of this commentary.

Nikolai Samus Interview by Boris Stern with a doct. physical. Sciences, Vedas. scientific. sore. Inasan and Gaish of Moscow State University Nikolai Samusem . -We have already covered the situation around the Pulkovo observatory in the number of the TRV-hunger of January 31, 2017.

“If the facts about the gigantic gap in space technology, where SpaceX did in 5 years what Angara did not do in 30, have taught you nothing, then keep hiding your head in the sand. Russians have wanted greatness for so long that they easily believed the thieves of Putin’s group who postulated it to them. As long as they don’t look at their hands while billions are being taken out of the country. Now reality has stared between the eyes, and this is only the beginning of the bad news.

The July 1st Club expresses its outrage at the events that took place at the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences on March 20, 2017. The assembled members of the Academy, many of whom came from afar, were faced with a fact: the elections of the President and Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for which the Academy had been preparing for several months, were cancelled.

Natalia Demina We discussed the current situation with the European University in St. Petersburg with one of its founders, who for a long time held the position of the rector, Professor Nikolai Vakhtin . Talked by Natalia Demina . - How do you assess the situation with the European University, how critical or has it already stabilized? - No, she did not stabilize.

Julia Black According to the official statistics of the World Health Association, 350 million people need medical care in connection with depression in the world. And the number of people who make such a diagnosis is constantly growing ... Novosibirsk scientists have received a grant of the Russian Scientific Fund for the study of the tendency to depression and the characteristics of the organization of oscillator networks of the brain.

It is known that the main obstacle to the fully introduction of renewable energy sources (primarily the energy of the Sun) are the problems of accumulating this very energy and its transportation. The batteries are not cheap and bulky, and with transformations of light energy into electricity, and then significant losses are inevitable into mechanical energy.

Alexander Sergeev On April 22, in large cities of Russia, the educational and educational action "All-Russian Laboratory" will be held. Offline sites will open in universities, schools, scientific institutes, museums, libraries and cafes, and the virtual Laba will actively work on the website Roslaba.org . The theme of the action is “non -childish questions”. What could be faster than light? How does the living differ from inanimate? Why do people divide into men and women?

Interview with Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Science Council under the Ministry of Education and Science, Vice-Rector of Moscow State University Alexei Khokhlov . Interviewed by Natalia Demina. Full version of the interview (in paper and pdf versions - abbreviated versions). — What do you think about what happened at the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the events that preceded it?