The Kommersant newspaper was signed by 400 scientists, among them 68 academicians, 112 corresponding members, 19 professors of the Russian Academy of Sciences and about 200 doctors of science. Among the signatories are Abel Aganbegyan, Evgeniy Alexandrov, Abdusalam Guseinov, Nikolai Kazansky, Alexander Moldovan, Alexander Nekipelov, Sergei Stishov, Svetlana Tolstaya, Vsevolod Bagno, Mikhail Andreev, Fyodor Uspensky, Natalya Kornienko and others. Before his death, academician Andrei Zaliznyak also managed to sign this appeal . The scientists called on the head of state to urgently change “the status of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the status of scientific institutes” and return the institutes under the leadership of the Academy of Sciences. Otherwise, in their opinion, the president elected in March 2018 “will take over a country with a headless, dying fundamental science, unable to meet the challenges of the modern world.” According to scientists, now in Russia “a cumbersome and dysfunctional system of science management has been created.” The text of the statement is given below in full.
Open letter to the President Russian Federation V.V. Putin
“... to appoint persons completely ignorant of science or art as judges over learned people, giving them the power to do with the latter as they please - these are innovations that are capable of destroying the state”
Galileo Galilei, "Dialogues"
Mr. President! In July 2016, over 200 prominent Russian scientists wrote you an open letter (“Letter-200”) about the critical situation in Russian science and the need for urgent measures to be taken by the country’s top leadership (https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3046956 ). No official response was received to this letter, and all its points remain relevant. Moreover, over the past time the situation has only worsened: funding for RAS institutes has been reduced; The senseless restructuring of many institutions continues, the absurd bureaucratization of science management by the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FANO) is intensifying; There is an increase in scientific emigration from Russia of the younger generation of scientists.
In September of this year, elections took place for a new president of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a new presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. All candidates for president of the Russian Academy of Sciences were included in the renewed presidium. In their election programs, candidates - academicians E.N. Kablov, G.Ya. Krasnikov and R.I. Nigmatulin supported most of the theses of “Letters-200” and its main proposal - reassigning the Federal Agency of the Russian Academy of Sciences and entrusting FANO with economic issues and property management of institutes. All scientific institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences must be an integral part of the Russian Academy of Sciences and conduct research under its leadership. Elected President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician A.M. In his program, Sergeev also outlined a strategic goal - joint management of institutes by the RAS and FANO, and as a priority task he indicated the need to give the RAS a special state status.
Most of the problems of interaction between Institutes and FANO arise precisely as a result of the inadequate legal status of scientific institutes and the Academy itself. They are trying to apply to scientific organizations rules that are obviously inapplicable to them. budgetary institutions, completely disregarding the creative and exploratory nature of the researchers’ work. Scientists must “plan” how many discoveries they will make, how many and in which journals they will publish articles in the next few years. Such planning is impossible in principle, and the corresponding requirements lead only to fraud and deception. The same applies to the ridiculous calculation of standard hours for the production of scientific products, which amounts to a feverish adjustment to the required indicators. The number of meaningless reports and plans has increased manifold. The latest innovations of FANO link the planned increase in funding for RAS institutes in subsequent years with the absurd requirement of a proportional increase in the number of publications. In reality, a cumbersome and dysfunctional science management system has been created. The entire style and methods of work of FANO are objectively aimed at destroying science as such, not to mention the creative atmosphere necessary for scientific activity.
There is only one way out of this catastrophic situation: an urgent change in the status of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the status of scientific institutes, and the return of the institutes under the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the future, it is necessary to take a number of serious steps, such as: a significant increase in funding for academic science and a radical revision of the structure of this funding; re-establishment of scientific postgraduate studies in the RAS system; complete withdrawal of academic science from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and Science. These steps require time and significant financial costs. At the same time, solving the main problem - the return of scientific institutes to the RAS - requires only your political will.
If urgent measures to correct the described tragic situation are not taken, then in March 2018 the elected President of Russia will take control of a country with a beheaded, dying fundamental science, unable to meet the challenges of the modern world. Nevertheless, I would like to believe that this will not happen, and that the country’s leadership will correct the situation by creating conditions for the development of science in Russian institutes by freely working scientists.
Academician G.A. Abakumov
Academician A.G. Aganbegyan
Academician E.B. Alexandrov
Academician A.E. Anikin
Academician Yu.D. Apresyan
Academician P.Ya. Baklanov
Academician V.I. Berdyshev
Academician A.A. Berlin
Academician A.A. Borovkov
Academician A.P. Buzhilova
Academician V.V. Brazhkin
Academician D.A. Varshalovich
Academician V.A. Deaf
Academician S.G. Godunov
Academician E.I. Gordeev
Academician A.A. Huseynov
Academician M.V. Danilov
Academician E.M. Dianov
Academician V.V. Dmitriev
Academician V.A. Dybo
Academician Yu.L. Ershov
Academician A.A. Zaliznyak
Academician V.E. Zakharov
Academician Yu.A. Zolotov
Academician S.G. Inge-Vechtomov
Academician N.N. Kazansky
Academician A.A. Kaplyansky
Academician S.P. Karpov
Academician V.L. Kozhevnikov
Academician S.V. Konyagin
Academician V.M. Kotlyakov
Academician E.A. Kuznetsov
Academician M.I. Kuzmin
Academician I.V. Kukushkin
Academician G.A. Kumanev
Academician V.A. Levin
Academician S.V. Matveev
Academician Yu.V. Matiyasevich
Academician S.V. Medvedev
Academician V.P. Meshalkin
Academician P.A. Minakir
Academician S.V. Mikheev
Academician A.M. Moldovan
Academician Yu.N. Moline
Academician N.F. Myasoedov
Academician A.D. Nekipelov
Academician L.P. Ovchinnikov
Academician V.A. Plungyan
Academician V.M. Polterovich
Academician A.K. Rebrov
Academician M.V. Sadovsky
Academician A.A. Sarkisov
Academician V.I. Sergienko
Academician A.V. Sobolev
Academician N.V. Sobolev
Academician S.M. Stishov
Academician S.T. Surzhikov
Academician R.A. Souris
Academician V.B. Timofeev
Academician S.M. Fat
Academician A.K. Tulokhonov
Academician G.A. Filippov
Academician A.I. Kholkin
Academician A.V. Chaplik
Academician M.F. Churbanov
Academician V.Ya. Shevchenko
Academician M.S. Yunusov
Academician M.I. Yalandin
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Azatyan
Corresponding member RAS V.M. Alpatov
Corresponding member RAS M.L. Andreev
Corresponding member RAS S.I. Anisimov
Corresponding member RAS L.Ya. Aranovich
Corresponding member RAS P.I. Arseev
Corresponding member RAS S.A. Arutyunov
Corresponding member RAS V.E. Bagno
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Bamburov
Corresponding member RAS V.M. Batenin
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Belavin
Corresponding member RAS E.L. Berezovich
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Bogatov
Corresponding member RAS D.M. Bondarenko
Corresponding member RAS A.B. Borisov
Corresponding member RAS L.I. Borodkin
Corresponding member RAS I.A. Buffets
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Vasin
Corresponding member RAS E.V. Vinogradov
Corresponding member RAS B.A. Voronov
Corresponding member RAS N.V. Gavrilov
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Gippius
Corresponding member RAS M.M. Glazov
Corresponding member RAS B.N. Goshchitsky
Corresponding member RAS V.M. Grigoriev
Corresponding member RAS V.L. Gurevich
Corresponding member RAS A.N. Guryanov
Corresponding member RAS G.V. Danilyan
Corresponding member RAS V.E. Dementiev
Corresponding member RAS A.N. Didenko
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Dubinin
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Dybo
Corresponding member RAS A.S. Zapesotsky
Corresponding member RAS Yu.A. Zakharov
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Ivanchik
Corresponding member RAS A.I. Ivanchik
Corresponding member RAS E.L. Ivchenko
Corresponding member RAS V.A. Ilyin
Corresponding member RAS G.I. Kanel
Corresponding member RAS I.T. Kasavin
Corresponding member RAS S.M. Kashtanov
Corresponding member RAS R.I. Kapelyushnikov
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Kveder
Corresponding member RAS V.P. Carpet
Corresponding member RAS N.V. Kornienko
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Kotov
Corresponding member RAS O.I. Koyfman
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Kuznetsov
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Kulichikhin
Corresponding member RAS A.R. Kurchikov
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Kuchin
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Lazhentsev
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Lykosov
Corresponding member RAS V.D. Mazurov
Corresponding member RAS A.L. Maksimov
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Maslov
Corresponding member RAS O.E. Miller
Corresponding member RAS V.L. Mironov
Corresponding member RAS V.F. Mironov
Corresponding member RAS G.A. Mikhailov
Corresponding member RAS S.A. Myznikov
Corresponding member RAS I.G. Unknown
Corresponding member RAS V.Ya. Neiland
Corresponding member RAS I.A. Nekrasov
Corresponding member RAS A.I. Nikolaev
Corresponding member RAS S.I. Nikolaev
Corresponding member INJURED. Nosov
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Osipov
Corresponding member RAS B.G. Pokusaev
Corresponding member RAS S.A. Ponomarenko
Corresponding member RAS A.P. Potekhin
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Pukhnachev
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Puchkov
Corresponding member RAS V.I. Rachkov
Corresponding member RAS L.P. Repina
Corresponding member RAS A.B. Rinkevich
Corresponding member RAS V.I. Ritus
Corresponding member RAS N.N. Rozanov
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Romanov
Corresponding member RAS V.S. Rukavishnikov
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Sagaradze
Corresponding member RAS N.N. Salashchenko
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Saranin
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Sakhno
Corresponding member RAS N.N. Sibeldin
Corresponding member RAS E.V. Sklyarov
Corresponding member RAS R.L. Smelyansky
Corresponding member RAS O.N. Straw
Corresponding member RAS N.G. Solomonov
Corresponding member RAS A.P. Sorokin
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Stepanov
Corresponding member RAS N. N. Subbotina
Corresponding member RAS V.I. Suslov
Corresponding member RAS A.F. Titov
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Tishkov
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Tolstonogov
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Turlapov
Corresponding member RAS F. B. Uspensky
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Ushakov
Corresponding member RAS V.S. Fadin
Corresponding member RAS D.V. Frolov
Corresponding member RAS A.G. Chentsov
Corresponding member RAS S.V. Cherkasov
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Chernov
Corresponding member INJURED. Black
Corresponding member RAS E.M. Churazov
Corresponding member RAS Yu.B. Shapovalov
Corresponding member RAS V.S. Shatsky
Corresponding member RAS I.V. Shkredov
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Shpak
Corresponding member RAS B.M. Shustov
Corresponding member RAS Yu.A. Shchipunov
Corresponding member RAS D.G. Yakovlev
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.B. Arbuzov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.N. Beshentsev
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.A. Burlak
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences M.I. Wexler
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.S. Danilko
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.S. Desnitsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences I.N. Zilfikarov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences I.M. Indrupsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.V. Kazakovskaya
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.L. Karchevsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.F. Letnikova
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences D.V. Metelkin
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.V. Naumov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences N.Yu. Peskov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.I. Poddelsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.V. Samsonov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences G.S. Sokolovsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.V. Streltsov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.A. Shiryaev
The full list of signatories can be seen
They write that due to the reform of the academy, a cumbersome and dysfunctional system of science management has appeared in the country. Scientists must plan how many discoveries they will make and in which journals they will publish papers in the next few years.
This planning is impossible in principle; such demands only lead to fraud and deception. The same applies to the ridiculous calculation of “standard hours for the production of scientific products,” write the authors of the appeal.
Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin
Mr. President!
In July 2016, over 200 prominent Russian scientists wrote you an open letter (“Letter-200”) about the critical situation in Russian science and the need for urgent measures to be taken by the country’s top leadership (https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3046956 ). No official response was received to this letter, and all its points remain relevant. Moreover, over the past time the situation has only worsened: funding for RAS institutes has been reduced; The senseless restructuring of many institutions continues, the absurd bureaucratization of science management by the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FANO) is intensifying; There is an increase in scientific emigration from Russia of the younger generation of scientists.
In September of this year, elections took place for a new president of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a new presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. All candidates for president of the Russian Academy of Sciences were included in the renewed presidium. In their election programs, candidates - academicians E.N. Kablov, G.Ya. Krasnikov and R.I. Nigmatulin supported most of the theses of “Letters-200” and its main proposal - reassigning the Federal Agency to the Russian Academy of Sciences and entrusting FANO with economic issues and property management of institutes. All scientific institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences must be an integral part of the Russian Academy of Sciences and conduct research under its leadership. Elected President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician A.M. In his program, Sergeev also outlined a strategic goal - joint management of institutes by the RAS and FANO, and as a priority task he indicated the need to give the RAS a special state status.
Most of the problems of interaction between Institutes and FANO arise precisely as a result of the inadequate legal status of scientific institutes and the Academy itself. They are trying to apply to scientific organizations the rules of ordinary budget institutions that are obviously inapplicable to them, completely disregarding the creative and exploratory nature of the work of researchers. Scientists must “plan” how many discoveries they will make, how many and in which journals they will publish articles in the next few years. Such planning is impossible in principle, and the corresponding requirements lead only to fraud and deception. The same applies to the ridiculous calculation of standard hours for the production of scientific products, which amounts to a feverish adjustment to the required indicators. The number of meaningless reports and plans has increased manifold. The latest innovations of FANO link the planned increase in funding for RAS institutes in subsequent years with the absurd requirement of a proportional increase in the number of publications. In reality, a cumbersome and dysfunctional science management system has been created. The entire style and methods of work of FANO are objectively aimed at destroying science as such, not to mention the creative atmosphere necessary for scientific activity.
There is only one way out of this catastrophic situation: an urgent change in the status of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the status of scientific institutes, and the return of the institutes under the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the future, it is necessary to take a number of serious steps, such as: a significant increase in funding for academic science and a radical revision of the structure of this funding; re-establishment of scientific postgraduate studies in the RAS system; complete withdrawal of academic science from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and Science. These steps require time and significant financial costs. At the same time, solving the main problem - the return of scientific institutes to the RAS - requires only your political will.
If urgent measures to correct the described tragic situation are not taken, then in March 2018 the elected President of Russia will take control of a country with a beheaded, dying fundamental science, unable to meet the challenges of the modern world. Nevertheless, I would like to believe that this will not happen, and that the country’s leadership will correct the situation by creating conditions for the development of science in Russian institutes by freely working scientists.
Academician G.A. Abakumov
Academician A.G. Aganbegyan
Academician E.B. Alexandrov
Academician A.E. Anikin
Academician Yu.D. Apresyan
Academician P.Ya. Baklanov
Academician V.I. Berdyshev
Academician A.A. Berlin
Academician A.A. Borovkov
Academician A.P. Buzhilova
Academician V.V. Brazhkin
Academician D.A. Varshalovich
Academician V.A. Deaf
Academician S.G. Godunov
Academician E.I. Gordeev
Academician A.A. Huseynov
Academician M.V. Danilov
Academician E.M. Dianov
Academician V.V. Dmitriev
Academician V.A. Dybo
Academician Yu.L. Ershov
Academician A.A. Zaliznyak
Academician V.E. Zakharov
Academician Yu.A. Zolotov
Academician S.G. Inge-Vechtomov
Academician N.N. Kazansky
Academician A.A. Kaplyansky
Academician S.P. Karpov
Academician V.L. Kozhevnikov
Academician S.V. Konyagin
Academician V.M. Kotlyakov
Academician E.A. Kuznetsov
Academician M.I. Kuzmin
Academician I.V. Kukushkin
Academician G.A. Kumanev
Academician V.A. Levin
Academician S.V. Matveev
Academician Yu.V. Matiyasevich
Academician S.V. Medvedev
Academician V.P. Meshalkin
Academician P.A. Minakir
Academician S.V. Mikheev
Academician A.M. Moldovan
Academician Yu.N. Moline
Academician N.F. Myasoedov
Academician A.D. Nekipelov
Academician L.P. Ovchinnikov
Academician V.A. Plungyan
Academician V.M. Polterovich
Academician A.K. Rebrov
Academician M.V. Sadovsky
Academician A.A. Sarkisov
Academician V.I. Sergienko
Academician A.V. Sobolev
Academician N.V. Sobolev
Academician S.M. Stishov
Academician S.T. Surzhikov
Academician R.A. Souris
Academician V.B. Timofeev
Academician S.M. Fat
Academician A.K. Tulokhonov
Academician G.A. Filippov
Academician A.I. Kholkin
Academician A.V. Chaplik
Academician M.F. Churbanov
Academician V.Ya. Shevchenko
Academician M.S. Yunusov
Academician M.I. Yalandin
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Azatyan
Corresponding member RAS V.M. Alpatov
Corresponding member RAS M.L. Andreev
Corresponding member RAS S.I. Anisimov
Corresponding member RAS L.Ya. Aranovich
Corresponding member RAS P.I. Arseev
Corresponding member RAS S.A. Arutyunov
Corresponding member RAS V.E. Bagno
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Bamburov
Corresponding member RAS V.M. Batenin
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Belavin
Corresponding member RAS E.L. Berezovich
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Bogatov
Corresponding member RAS D.M. Bondarenko
Corresponding member RAS A.B. Borisov
Corresponding member RAS L.I. Borodkin
Corresponding member RAS I.A. Buffets
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Vasin
Corresponding member RAS E.V. Vinogradov
Corresponding member RAS B.A. Voronov
Corresponding member RAS N.V. Gavrilov
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Gippius
Corresponding member RAS M.M. Glazov
Corresponding member RAS B.N. Goshchitsky
Corresponding member RAS V.M. Grigoriev
Corresponding member RAS V.L. Gurevich
Corresponding member RAS A.N. Guryanov
Corresponding member RAS G.V. Danilyan
Corresponding member RAS V.E. Dementiev
Corresponding member RAS A.N. Didenko
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Dubinin
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Dybo
Corresponding member RAS A.S. Zapesotsky
Corresponding member RAS Yu.A. Zakharov
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Ivanchik
Corresponding member RAS A.I. Ivanchik
Corresponding member RAS E.L. Ivchenko
Corresponding member RAS V.A. Ilyin
Corresponding member RAS G.I. Kanel
Corresponding member RAS I.T. Kasavin
Corresponding member RAS S.M. Kashtanov
Corresponding member RAS R.I. Kapelyushnikov
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Kveder
Corresponding member RAS V.P. Carpet
Corresponding member RAS N.V. Kornienko
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Kotov
Corresponding member RAS O.I. Koyfman
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Kuznetsov
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Kulichikhin
Corresponding member RAS A.R. Kurchikov
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Kuchin
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Lazhentsev
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Lykosov
Corresponding member RAS V.D. Mazurov
Corresponding member RAS A.L. Maksimov
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Maslov
Corresponding member RAS O.E. Miller
Corresponding member RAS V.L. Mironov
Corresponding member RAS V.F. Mironov
Corresponding member RAS G.A. Mikhailov
Corresponding member RAS S.A. Myznikov
Corresponding member RAS I.G. Unknown
Corresponding member RAS V.Ya. Neiland
Corresponding member RAS I.A. Nekrasov
Corresponding member RAS A.I. Nikolaev
Corresponding member RAS S.I. Nikolaev
Corresponding member INJURED. Nosov
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Osipov
Corresponding member RAS B.G. Pokusaev
Corresponding member RAS S.A. Ponomarenko
Corresponding member RAS A.P. Potekhin
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Pukhnachev
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Puchkov
Corresponding member RAS V.I. Rachkov
Corresponding member RAS L.P. Repina
Corresponding member RAS A.B. Rinkevich
Corresponding member RAS V.I. Ritus
Corresponding member RAS N.N. Rozanov
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Romanov
Corresponding member RAS V.S. Rukavishnikov
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Sagaradze
Corresponding member RAS N.N. Salashchenko
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Saranin
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Sakhno
Corresponding member RAS N.N. Sibeldin
Corresponding member RAS E.V. Sklyarov
Corresponding member RAS R.L. Smelyansky
Corresponding member RAS O.N. Straw
Corresponding member RAS N.G. Solomonov
Corresponding member RAS A.P. Sorokin
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Stepanov
Corresponding member RAS N. N. Subbotina
Corresponding member RAS V.I. Suslov
Corresponding member RAS A.F. Titov
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Tishkov
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Tolstonogov
Corresponding member RAS A.V. Turlapov
Corresponding member RAS F. B. Uspensky
Corresponding member RAS V.N. Ushakov
Corresponding member RAS V.S. Fadin
Corresponding member RAS D.V. Frolov
Corresponding member RAS A.G. Chentsov
Corresponding member RAS S.V. Cherkasov
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Chernov
Corresponding member INJURED. Black
Corresponding member RAS E.M. Churazov
Corresponding member RAS Yu.B. Shapovalov
Corresponding member RAS V.S. Shatsky
Corresponding member RAS I.V. Shkredov
Corresponding member RAS V.G. Shpak
Corresponding member RAS B.M. Shustov
Corresponding member RAS Yu.A. Shchipunov
Corresponding member RAS D.G. Yakovlev
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.B. Arbuzov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.N. Beshentsev
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.A. Burlak
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences M.I. Wexler
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.S. Danilko
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.S. Desnitsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences I.N. Zilfikarov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences I.M. Indrupsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.V. Kazakovskaya
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.L. Karchevsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.F. Letnikova
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences D.V. Metelkin
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.V. Naumov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences N.Yu. Peskov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.I. Poddelsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.V. Samsonov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences G.S. Sokolovsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.V. Streltsov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.A. Shiryaev
Doctor of Chemical Sciences S.A. Avilov
Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences O.V. Avchenko
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences P.E. Alaev
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences A.P. Aldushin
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.A. Alexandrov
Doctor of Philology M.F. Albedil
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences N.E. Andreev
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences A.D. Aponasenko
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.G. Arkhipkin
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences A.F. Barabanov
Doctor of Biological Sciences N.K. Belishcheva
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.S. Belonosov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.N. Belykh
Doctor of Technical Sciences B.A. Belyaev
Doctor historical sciences Yu.E. Berezkin
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences G.Sh. Boltachev
Doctor of Historical Sciences N.V. Braginskaya
Doctor of Philology L.P. Bykov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences A.V. Bialko
Doctor of Chemical Sciences F.A. Valeev
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.V. Valkov
Doctor of Economic Sciences A.E. Varshavsky
Doctor of Chemical Sciences S.F. Vasilevsky
Doctor of Philological Sciences Ya.V. Vasilkov
Doctor of Historical Sciences A.S. Vashchuk
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.A. Wentzel
Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences N.V. Vladykin
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences N.B. Volkov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Yu.S. Volkov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences E.M. Volodin
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences I.F. Ginsburg
Doctor of Geographical Sciences S.M. Govorushko
Doctor of Biological Sciences L.A. Golovleva
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.V. Golub
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.P. Golubyatnikov
Doctor of Economic Sciences A.E. Gorodetsky
Doctor of Philology A.V. Gura
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences A.A. Gusev
Doctor of Geographical Sciences V.A. Dauwalter
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences G.V. Demidenko
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences M.L. Demidov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.A. Dykhta
Doctor of Chemical Sciences N.L. Egutkin
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences K.N. Eltsov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences A.V. Eremin
Doctor of Medical Sciences N.V. Efimova
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Yu.N. Efremov
Doctor of Biological Sciences P.M. Zhadan
Doctor of Historical Sciences V.I. Zavyalov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.B. Zalesny
Doctor of Chemical Sciences G.S. Zakharova
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences N.A. Zemnukhova
Doctor of Biological Sciences T.I. Zemskaya
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.Ya. Zyryanov
Doctor of Technical Sciences V.E. Zyubin
Doctor of Biological Sciences V.A. Ilyukha
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.Yu. Irkhin
Doctor of Biological Sciences N.N. Kavtsevich
Doctor of Chemical Sciences A.M. Kalinkin
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.G. Kamensky
Doctor of Technical Sciences M.F. Loaf
Doctor of Technical Sciences A.M. Kasimov
Doctor of Biological Sciences L.N. Kasyanova
Doctor of Biological Sciences A.G. Kiseleva
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The collection of signatures continues
Scientists, academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences wrote an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which they expressed dissatisfaction with the progress of the academy’s reform and complained about the style and methods of work of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations. The text of the letter was published on Wednesday by the Kommersant newspaper.
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The authors of the letter, signed by about 400 people, complain about the legal status of scientific institutes and the academy itself. “Most of the problems of interaction between the Institutes and the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FANO) arise precisely as a result of the inadequate legal status of scientific institutes and the academy itself. They are trying to apply to scientific organizations the rules of ordinary budget institutions that are obviously inapplicable to them, completely disregarding the creative and exploratory nature of the work of researchers,” the text of the letter says.
“Scientists must “plan” how many discoveries they will make, how many and in which journals they will publish articles in the next few years. Such planning is impossible in principle,” the authors of the letter say.
Scientists also note that the innovations of FANO, created in 2013 during the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), “link the planned increase in funding for RAS institutes in subsequent years with the absurd requirement of a proportional increase in the number of publications.” “In reality, a cumbersome and dysfunctional science management system has been created. The entire style and methods of work of FANO are objectively aimed at destroying science as such, not to mention the creative atmosphere necessary for scientific activity,” the letter notes.
According to the authors of the letter, there is an urgent need to change the status of the Russian Academy of Sciences and scientific institutes, as well as to return them under the leadership of the academy. “In the future, it is necessary to take a number of serious steps, such as: a significant increase in funding for academic science and a radical revision of the structure of this funding; re-establishment of scientific postgraduate studies in the RAS system; complete withdrawal of academic science from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and Science,” the letter notes.
If this does not happen, “in March 2018, the elected President of Russia will take over a country with a headless, dying fundamental science, unable to meet the challenges of the modern world,” the scientists add. “Nevertheless, I would like to believe that this will not happen, and that the country’s leadership will correct the situation by creating conditions for the development of science in Russian institutes by freely working scientists,” the authors of the letter hope.
The Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations is a federal executive body that is the founder and owner of federal property assigned to the RAS organizations subordinate to it.
The department was created on September 27, 2013 during the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a result of transformations, the Russian Academy of Sciences was merged with the academies of medical and agricultural sciences. Organizations included in the academies and their property were transferred to the management of a new federal authority - FANO Russia. On January 8, 2014, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev approved a list of 1007 scientific institutions transferred to the agency’s subordination. At the beginning of June 2015, the government approved the rules of coordination between FANO and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
A joint meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Coordination Council of the FANO of Russia will be held today in Moscow: academicians and officials plan to discuss cooperation next year. At the same time, as Kommersant learned, a group of 400 scientists sent an open letter to President Vladimir Putin. The authors complain about the “inadequate legal status of scientific institutes and the academy itself” and argue that FANO’s “style and methods of work” interfere with scientific activity.
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Director of the Institute of Physics high pressures Academician Vadim Brazhkin told Kommersant that the appeal to the President of the Russian Federation was caused by “dissatisfaction with the progress of the RAS reform, which is shared by the overwhelming majority of the academic corps.” He recalled that the reform began back in 2013, “and if earlier it was possible to say that not everything had been settled yet, now we clearly see that this step has mainly negative consequences.” Another reason for writing is that the academy’s leadership was updated in the fall. “We waited until 100 days passed, the president and the presidium got up to speed,” he added.
The letter says that due to the reform, the country “has created a cumbersome and dysfunctional system of science management,” within which they are trying to impose “obviously inapplicable rules of ordinary budget institutions” on scientists.
According to the authors, most of the problems of interaction between institutes and FANO arise “precisely as a result of the inadequate legal status of scientific institutes and the academy itself.” Scientists ask the president to show “political will” and change the legal status of the Russian Academy of Sciences, while returning to it the scientific institutes that are now subordinate to the FANO.
If urgent measures to correct the described tragic situation are not taken, then in March 2018, the elected president of Russia will take over a country with a beheaded, dying fundamental science.
The document was signed by more than 400 academicians, corresponding members and scientists from outside the RAS system. Shortly before his death, linguist academician Andrei Zaliznyak (died on December 24) also signed the appeal.
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FANO yesterday did not comment on the scientists’ letter.
RAS President Alexander Sergeev told Kommersant that his colleagues at the academy “are free to express their opinions, this is completely normal.” At the same time, he does not agree with the thesis that changing the status of the Russian Academy of Sciences is only a matter of political will.
“Of course, the status of the Federal State Budgetary Institution is not sufficient for the academy to implement state scientific policy. And I, like the authors of the letter, believe that the issue of changing the status of the RAS is ripe,” said Mr. Sergeev. According to him, “the authorities have an understanding of this problem,” however simple solution doesn't exist yet.
“We need to find a suitable legal form for the academy,” explained the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “We cannot and do not want to be a ministry or other federal executive body - there is a rigid vertical structure, appointment of leadership, and so on. We need to remain a self-governing organization based on elections, but with the right to legislative initiative. There is simply no suitable legal form in the country.”
Alexander Chernykh
