Forts: Livanov, maybe not so neatly puts it, but something in his words there - BBC

future president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) should give up their personal ambitions in a dialogue with the Russian Academy of Sciences Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, it will help to build constructive cooperation between the parties and serve the interests of the academy, said the candidate for the post of Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Vladimir Forts.

In March, the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov said the Russian Academy of Sciences – is inefficient, outmoded form of organization science. In response, some representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences wrote an open letter demanding Livanov apologize to the Academy. Minister apologized. However, in protest of the fort and the other presidential candidate RAS Alferov came from the Public Council under the Ministry of Education.

«He (Livanov – Ed.), maybe not so neatly puts it, but something in his words is” – Fortier said on Thursday, speaking at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute.

According Fortova for constructive interaction and Sciences Academy of the Ministry of Education’s new president in the name of its interests should be looking to negotiate, using the necessary arguments, insults and political ambitions “leave with him».