Alexander Fradkov The other day, on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science, the results of the competition of large projects of 2020 were published [ 1 ]. This was the first mass competition, significant on the country's scale, where the examination was conducted by the Russian RAS.

On August 1, 2020, the July 1st Club released the following statement. The crossroads at which our world finds itself today is giving rise to a sharp increase in instability and activity of various political forces, often exceeding the limits of reasonable sufficiency. This poses a particular danger to the scientific world, the existence of which requires an atmosphere of freedom, wide contacts and discussions between representatives of different points of view.

Alexey Tkachenko and Sergey Maslov (right). Photo from the archive of heroes interviews The fact that new physicists can bring to mathematical models of coronavirus pandemia, why it is worth talking not only about collective immunity, but also about the heterogeneous exposure of people to the virus, we talked with physicists Sergei Maslov and Alexei Tkachenko .

From left to right: Atlas-5, Changzhen-5, H-IIA. NASA / Xinhua / Hope Mars Mission Alexander Khokhlov Missile summer. From the mouth to the mouth with the wind from the house to the open house - two words: missile summer. Hot, like the breath of the desert, the air overdid frosty patterns on the windows, licked fragile lace. Skis and sleds suddenly did not need. The snow that fell on the town from the cold sky turned into hot rain, not reaching the ground. Missile summer.

This summer marks 80 years of one unusual rescue operation carried out in Kaunas by the Japanese and Dutchman, the result of which was the salvation of thousands of Jews from the inevitable death due to the repression of the Nazis. Tiune Sugihar. "Wikipedia" One of the heroes of our story is the Japanese diplomat of Tyune Sugihura (Sugihara Chiune, 1900–1986), whose fate was quite closely connected with Russia. Tiune was born at the turn of the century - January 1, 1900.

Boris Stern Our editor -in -chief Boris Stern told what he worked on during the year in his free time from science. - How did the idea of ​​a new book appear? How long has the work went on it? - Starting idea: if civilization perishes and revives through millennia - what can distant descendants know about it, how will they investigate this death?

Alexey Ivanov , Dokt. Geol.-Min. sciences, deputy. Director for the Science of the Institute of Earth's Cossack SB RAS, made a short review of the news of the CO2 variation science over the past 300 million years and the possible environmental consequences of the modern growth of concentrations of this gas.

In my memory, there are as many as four heads of Moscow education, not counting the newly appointed A. B. Molotkov, about whom there is nothing to talk or write yet. G. A. Aseev (1962–1986), L. P. Kezina (1986–2007), O. N. Larionova (2007–2011), I. I. Kalina (2011–2020) were successively leaders in this area. But perhaps none of his predecessors received such a public reaction to his resignation as Isaac Kalina, who closes this list.

In July 2020, a report “Terrorism: the inadmissibility of justification was published on the Higher School website. Historical, ethical and legal aspects ”, prepared by a group of teachers of the Higher School [1]. A group of scientists turned to our newspaper, which asked to publish a critical review of this text.

Andrey Tesl It cannot be said about Herzen that he is "forgotten." Rather - it seems to be a figure that has finally departed in history. This can be seen, among other things, because of the fact that none of the modern influential political or public groups are trying to symbolically appropriate it.

Lyudmil Katsarkov Alexander Efimov awarded the European Mathematical Society (EMS-Prize). This prestigious international award is awarded once every four years of ten outstanding young European mathematicians (up to 35 years) and is awarded during the European Mathematical Congress two years before the international congress of mathematicians (ICM). It is ICM that awards Fields medals - an analogue of the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

On August 4, 2020, the Petrozavodsk City Court received two appeals against the verdict in the case of search engine Yuri Dmitriev - both from the city prosecutor’s office and from Yuri Alekseevich himself.

On July 30, 2020, the following letter was sent to subordinate organizations from the deputy minister E. S. Druzhinina . Did the ministry forget about the important principle of Russian statehood - Art. 14 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation “Russian Federation - secular state”?

Dear editors! The well -known question "does the size matter?" There is a completely obvious answer: of course, has! Especially when it comes to financing projects. And it is obvious not only for us, recipients of money, but also for those who give money, for officials. Is it possible to do serious work for a penny? In the best case, you can only pretend that you did something useful.

In early May 2020, the names of ten new laureates of the European Mathematical Society Prize became known.