New Academy of Science President Pledges Reforms
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – May 30, 2013) A nuclear physicist with ties to the business community is promising reforms after being elected as Russia’s second post-Soviet president to the...
View ArticleRussia’s new science president Fortov faces uphill battle
(Moscow News – themoscownews.com – Kristen Blyth – June 3, 2013) There’s a new president in town, and his name is Vladimir Fortov. President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, that is. Fortov, a...
View ArticleRussian Duma Gives Green Light to Science Academy Reform
(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, July 3, 2013) A government-backed bill on a sweeping overhaul of Russia’s Academy of Sciences was passed in the first reading by the lower house of the federal parliament on...
View ArticlePutin: academic institute directors should not be appointed by bureaucrats
(Interfax – MOSCOW, July 3, 2013) Bureaucrats should not have the right to appoint directors of academic institutes, President Vladimir Putin said. “I would like to call your attention to a key...
View ArticleScientists Slam Academy Reform
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Natalya Krainova – July 3, 2013) The State Duma is set to vote Wednesday in a first reading on a heavily criticized bill sponsored by the government that would...
View ArticlePolice Raid Academy of Sciences in Illegal Immigration Sweep
(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, July 5, 2013) Russia’s prestigious Academy of Sciences, whose members are currently engaged in a fierce battle against government-proposed reforms, found itself under fire yet...
View ArticleAcademy reform to be done in 3 years, no dismissals planned – Duma committee...
(Interfax – MOSCOW, July 4, 2013) Transformations in the Russian Academy of Sciences will be evolutionary and take three years. Corresponding members may become academicians in that period, the Academy...
View ArticleCollateral Damage from Three New Russian Laws
(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, July 6, 2013) Three new pieces of Russian legislation appear likely to inflict serious collateral damage on that country, eliminating a defender of Lake...
View ArticleAcademicians fear reform may kill ‘oasis of freedom and democracy’
(Interfax – MOSCOW, July 9, 2013) Academicians may draft their own amendments to the bill reforming the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy corresponding member and Economics Institute Director Ruslan...
View ArticleReform of Russian Academy of Sciences to have no negative impact on employees...
(Interfax – GOGLAND ISLAND, Leningrad region, July 15, 2013) The reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences will have no negative impact on the work of the institute’s employees, Russian President...
View ArticleRevolt of the professors
(opendemocracy.net – Aleksandr Chuikov – September 3, 2013) In September Russia’s parliament votes on a highly controversial law to reform the Russian Academy of Sciences. As Aleksandr Chuikov reports,...
View ArticleStalin Won’t Be Called a ‘Bloody Butcher’ in New Standardized History Texts
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – September 6, 2013) The October Revolution will be considered a “process” and the term “bloody butcher” won’t be applied to Soviet leader Josef Stalin or his...
View ArticleCampaign of lies launched against Academy – ex-president
(Interfax – MOSCOW, September 17, 2013) Academician Yury Osipov, who was the Russian Academy of Sciences’ president for 12 years, said an unseemly and insulting campaign has been launched in the media...
View ArticleDuma to Consider Science Reform Amid Protest
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Natalya Krainova – September 18, 2013) The State Duma on Wednesday is set to review a controversial reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences in a key second...
View ArticleRussian Parliament Gives Approval for State to Take Over Academy of Sciences
(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, September 18, 2013) A bill to hand over control of research institutions in Russia from the country’s Academy of Sciences to the federal government was approved on Wednesday in...
View ArticleMoscow’s Plan to Restructure Academy of Sciences Will Spark Separatism,...
(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, September 24, 2013) If the Federation Council approves the government-backed and Duma-approved plan to restructure the Russian Academy of Sciences, a group...
View ArticleScience Reform Bill Passes Federation Council
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Allison Quinn – September 26, 2013) The Federation Council on Wednesday approved a controversial bill to reform the Russian Academy of Sciences, paving the way for...
View ArticleWhat awaits Russian science? The country’s scholars and scientists are...
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Andrey Vaganov, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, special to RBTH – October 25, 2013) A recently passed law on reforming the Russian Academy of...
View ArticleAcademy of Sciences ‘Doesn’t Own’ its Moscow Headquarters
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anna Dolgov – November 29, 2013) The Russian Academy of Sciences, or RAN, doesn’t have ownership rights over its landmark building on Vorobyovy Gory and may lose...
View ArticleInterfax: Conflicts on former Soviet soil should be settled peacefully –...
MOSCOW. Dec 3 (Interfax) – Head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations Vsevolod Chaplin has said that peaceful solutions should be found for conflicts in former Soviet...
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