1….., Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva and Deputy Minister Grigory Trubnikov introduced new members. As part of the regular rotation, 13 out of 22 people left the Council of their own free will. The council, in turn, offered new personnel to the ministry. …… Miracles!!!! The Ministry of Education and Science is forming a science council for itself.... ...And the thought immediately arises - how smart are the staff of the MINISTRY OF Educa- tion and Science!!! 2.

Alexander Poddyakov, professor of the Department of Psychology of the Higher School of Economics The article by Natalia Reznik “ Stone, Scissors, Paper ” [1] describes numerous funny ones - from a human point of view - the interaction of males in the struggle for females.

People of the world. Russian scientific abroad. Ed. D. Yu. Bayuka. -M.: Alpina Non-Fikshn, 2018 The ups and downs of the twentieth century forced hundreds of thousands of our compatriots to leave their homeland. But this book is not just about emigration - it is about Russian scientists and engineers who realized their talents abroad.

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences A. Sergeyev presents the genetics-megagantnik, head of the Center for Genomon Bioinformatics named after Dobrzhansky St. Petersburg State University Stevens O'Brien (Stephen J. Photo by N. Demina The question of how to improve the work of the scientific certification system in Russia became central at the next meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on November 14, 2017. There was no stormy discussion.

Ekaterina Buz The book of Mikhail Zygar about the collapse of the Russian Empire is one of the most anticipated new products of this fall. In the preface, the author warns honestly that he is a journalist, not a historian.

The article by N. Reznik “Rock, Paper, Scissors” describes numerous interactions of males in the fight for females. The principle of interactions “rock, paper, scissors” is considered in biology as one of the universal ones, supporting biodiversity at a variety of levels. This range of phenomena is called intransitive competition. Here, the superiority of A over B and then B over C does not extend to the pair A - C: in it C can dominate (win, surpass A).

Alexey Zygmont The animal, as Oksana Timofeev 1 , is witty at the beginning of his book, is a substantiated adjective: not subject, but the definition that we describe something, real animals, in general, unusual. "What an animal you are!" Of course, this does not mean a specific animal species and not even animals in general - in the “this” plan, they just happen boring, apathetically and even mechanically.

Svetlana Zerenes Every four years, editors and publishers of scientific periodicals, researchers, ethics, library business, information support for scientific activities are gathered at the International Congress on Reviewing and Scientific Publications (International Congress on Peer Review and Scientifc Publication).

Alexander Moldovan We publish the performance of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Moldovan at a meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on November 14, 2017, dedicated to improving the certification system of scientific personnel in the Russian Federation.

Sergey Popov It would seem that on the search for extraterrestrial life in general and reasonable in particular it is difficult to say something new. Therefore, it seems that there is no great sense in reading a whole new book on this topic. However, the collection "Are we alone in the universe?" I was pleasantly surprised.

Vasily Borodin From October 24 to January 21, the first in Russia exhibition of painting Khanim Sutin 1 (1893–1943) is held in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum - the event is exceptional against the background of all museum retrospective and modern exhibitions of recent years. Exceptional, because it leads away from the habitually complicated, fractally branched author’s and curatorial reflection and poses before the most basic, naive questions: “Why do you need painting?

Sergey Anureev Leading Russian universities strive for international ratings, but you can’t fill the training programs as such. Only competitive curricula, mainly in English, can attract applicants, especially from foreign countries. So far, even in leading Russian universities, programs and specialized disciplines in English are very few.

Irina Shcherbakova, Irina Ostrovskaya, Nikolai Mikhailov, Alena Kozlova Alexey Fire In the year of the decade of the Enlightener Prize, the authors of three popular science books were its laureates. In the nomination "Natural Sciences" the book won the book "To go crazy! Guide to mental disorders for a resident of the big city. " In the nomination "Humanities" on the occasion of the anniversary two winners were called at once: “The sign will not be erased.

Rebekah Frumkin “There are many chambers in the Palace of Arts, but the one, the key to which Burn-Jones stores, is a treasury. The scope of his imagination, the fruitfulness of fantasy, the sophistication of execution, the rare gift of the colorist - these are the features of this master. ” So in 1877, the American novelist and critic Henry James wrote about the English artist Edward Burn-Johns (1833-1898).

A variety of coins in treasures is one of the main materials for the analysis of economic relations, trade routes, travel in classical archeology. But sometimes it turns out that the same approaches can be used in modern economic geography. One of these opportunities was provided by the introduction of a single European currency - the euro.