EP calls on the Communist Party to work constructively in the preparation of the law on the RAS - Reuters

MOSCOW, July 3 – RIA Novosti. The deputies of the faction “United Russia” regrets the demarche of the Communist Party faction in the vote on the draft law on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and encourage them to engage in constructive dialogue and work on amendments to the second reading of the document .

Under the bill, the three State Academy – Academy of Sciences, Medical Sciences and Agricultural Sciences – will be eliminated, and based on them will be set up public-public organization “Russian Academy of Sciences.” Property management and institutions of the “old” Russian Academy of Sciences will be transferred to the new state agency. On Wednesday, the document was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading. After that, the Communist faction left the room before the autumn session.

“Unfortunately, colleagues from the Communist Party still at an early stage – bringing a bill – rejected it, they did not work with the bill. We were concerned that they criticized in essence,” – told reporters on Wednesday the head of United Russia faction, Vladimir Vasiliev.

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In turn, the first deputy chairman of the relevant committee for Science and High Technology Vladimir Kononov said that the Communists “have the opportunity to come back and join in the work on the amendments.”

head of the Duma Committee on Education Vyacheslav Nikonov, who heads the parliamentary working group to finalize the bill, said that at the moment agreed upon more than 30 amendments to the bill, “which clearly improve the text and will be submitted for consideration to the Committee on Science.” “In particular, we are talking about the elimination of the draft law of the word” elimination “(the bill provides for the elimination of Sciences). Further refinement are related to the legal form of a future academy and how will merge,” – said Nikonov.

first deputy head of the faction Bulaev EP Nicholas, explaining the reason for this rapid consideration of the bill on second reading (which is scheduled for July 5), said that this was done deliberately in order to now make changes to the bill and take the pressure off in the scientific community, associated with the provisions of this document.

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reform suggests that the Russian Academy selhoznauk and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences will be part of the updated RAS, which will automatically lead the newly elected president of the Academy of Vladimir fort. The government within three months from the date of entry into force of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences will have to create a Commission on the Elimination of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Read more >>