Monday, June 3, 2013

"Poburchali the sidelines and voted" - BBC

First Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a woman, most of the black balls was admired by Victor Petrik Sergei Aldoshin, but the majority at the general meeting of academics demonstrated the high credibility of the new president of Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov. “Times” analyzes the results of the elections to the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences.

A total of members of the Presidium of RAS were 58 people. Nine became vice-presidents – the list is updated by more than half. Five people – Alexander Andreev, Anatoly Grigoriev, Nikolai Laverov, Gennady Month and Alexander Nekipelov – left the posts of vice-presidents. Instead, they have been elected director of the Institute for Space Studies Leo Green, Valery Kostyuk – up to the present general meeting held the post of Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences Valentin Sergienko, the head of the Ural Branch of Valery Charushin and Talia Habrieva – Director of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law the Government of the Russian Federation, which became the first ever woman to win the post of Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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vice-president retained Nobel laureate Jaures Alferov, the head of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Aseyev, director of the Mathematical Institute. Steklov Valery Kozlov, as well as director of the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Aldoshin. As “the Newspaper”, the meeting, the vote Aldoshin, who led a delegation of Sciences, visited the laboratory of Victor Petrik, achieved the most “black balls”, although in the end and was confirmed as vice-president.

«disappointment for me was the election Aldoshina – said” the Newspaper “Boris Stern, a leading researcher at the Institute for Nuclear Research, editor in chief of the newspaper” Troitsky Variant. ” – During the last term, he strongly damped because of the reputation of the case Petrik. Many, including those elected were unhappy, but no one openly addressed. So … poburchali and voted on the sidelines, no one would oppose. In the eyes of many academics, he has discredited itself, but because no one was against it, then that’s enough for passage.

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«In the list of vice-presidents is quite odious figure Aldoshina, it is the only one that causes some kind of emotion, – says Mikhail Gelfand, deputy director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences. – From Sergei Mikhailovich I expect him to again run into an ugly story, as it has been with Petrick. I think his re-election – is a consequence of some pre-election agreement, because it is so compromised himself a man that without some extraordinary reason to leave his vice-president would be weird. Frankly, the fact that the fort will offer Aldoshina, I knew another ten days ago ».

«Of the people I know, whose election I am very pleased it director of the Space Research Institute, Academician Lev Zeleny , – said Boris Stern. – I know him, he’s pretty good physicist and administrator, and we are like-minded in many things. This is a very decent man, and if there is any muck afoot, he will be able to resist it and bring it to the public ».

During the voting were selected and members of the Presidium of RAS. A total of 58 people entered the Bureau, in addition to the president and nine vice-presidents is Academician-Secretaries of each of the academic departments of RAS. Department of Energy, Engineering, Mechanics and Management headed by Andrei Lagarkov, Department of Mathematical Sciences – Ludwig Faddeev, Department of Biological Sciences – Alexei Rozanov, Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, and – Aslan Tsivadze, Department of Physical Sciences – Ivan Shcherbakov, Department of nanotechnology and information technology – Yevgeny Velikhov, Department of Social Sciences – Kokoshin, Department of History and Philology – Valery Tishkov, Department of global issues and international relations – Alexander Dynkin, and Department of Earth Sciences – Alexander Glyco. Head of the department of physiology and medicine remained a fundamental Yuri Natoc hin.

Each of the scientific departments put forward their own candidates to the presidium, and about two dozen candidates proposed a new president, Vladimir Forts.

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For example, the Bureau of the Russian Academy of Sciences came rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, academician Victor Sadovnichy, former Prime Minister of Russia, Academician Yevgeny Primakov and the director of the Hermitage, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Michael Piotrowski.

«From the updated composition of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and President of the RAS I’m waiting for, above all, greater openness of Russian society – said” the Newspaper “Vladimir Zakharov, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, winner of the State Prize of Russia and the USSR, taking an active part in the struggle against pseudoscience .

– One of the mistakes of the former leadership of the Academy were closed and some arrogance in relation to public opinion, which resulted in contact with the company was actually lost ».

«The process of building a team is, the fort has managed to pick himself and vice-presidents, and the Bureau, and the secured the support of the general meeting, which gave him carte blanche, even voting for the lesser-known collection of people, – says one of the leaders of the trade union of the RAS Vyacheslav Vdovin, vice-president of the International Association of Scientific Workers. – General meeting showed a vote of confidence Fortov all proposed Fortov Vice-Presidents and members of the Presidium passed, although some candidates were black balls. We have to see how people work. At first glance, the fort was able to create a fusion of continuity, as the gathering of people already working in the leadership of the RAS, and new. But as things go, is not clear. Now the key question – give authority. Just before the election of the Presidium of RAS (Thursday) members of the board of the trade union of Sciences discussed with the Deputy Minister of E ducation and Science Alexander Klimov reform issue postgraduate (there is a risk that as a result of the upcoming reform of our 9 th graduate of the Academy of Sciences will be out of the right field). At this meeting none of the leadership of the RAS could not come, because at that time no one in the leadership of the RAS has been elected, except for Vladimir E. Fortova. However, on Saturday, realizing that Valery V. Kozlov will continue to work as vice president of the Academy, I brought him information about the meeting on such a topical issue in the Ministry of Education. Valery V. expressed his willingness to immediately engage in this work.

In my opinion, the appeal of newly elected President of the RAS VA Fortova that the Russian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education to jointly deal with important matters of basic science ministry (at least in the person of Deputy A. Klimov ) perceived positive ».

«Presidency plays a big role. He actually directs current work – says Boris Stern. – The General Meeting is quite rare, it is difficult to take a sudden decision. The Bureau is going much more often, and fewer people are much easier to negotiate. I can say good about myself presidium, is that there came a good man, it’s Valery Rubakov. The man is very honest, not timid, properly understanding the situation in the country and in the Academy, a good physicist, the value of world level. And it is very important that the governing bodies are good scientists.

Overall, compared with the previous Bureau has a small shift for the better.

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In the renewal of the vice-presidents are signs of fresh breath, but until fairly feeble ».

«The Bureau of moderately fresh, I’m waiting on them roughly the same as it was before, at least looking at the list, there is no reason to think that things will change – says Mikhail Gelfand. – In order to understand how it works and negotiates with the President of the RAS Presidium, it is necessary to learn some history of the XVII century Germany. It’s such a terrible vizantiyschina that as there are arranged all of these balances is unclear. Can the Cardinals to influence the pope? They can. So these probably are! »

Thus, the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences is now selected, and the coming changes to it can only happen at the next General Meeting, to be held in December. In September, the new president of the RAS to be an important event: the President of Russia Vladimir Putin instructed the former head of the academy, Yuri Osipov, prepare the meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Technology, on the development of basic science in the country. It is expected that this meeting will give the vector of development of science in Russia in the next few years, and the new leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences should be thoroughly prepared for it.

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