The Kommersant newspaper was signed by 400 scientists, including 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, Yevgeny Aleksandrov, Abdusalam Huseynov, Nikolai Kazansky, Alexander Moldovan, Alexander Nekipelov, Sergey Stishov, Svetlana Tolstaya, Vsevolod Bagno, Mikhail Andreev, Fyodor Uspensky, Natalia Kornienko and others. Academician Andrey Zaliznyak managed to sign this appeal before his death . Scientists urged 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 decapitated, dying fundamental science, unable to meet the challenges of the modern world." According to scientists, now in Russia "a cumbersome and inoperative system of science management" has been created. The text of the statement is reproduced below in full.
Open letter to the President Russian Federation V.V. Putin
"... to appoint persons who are completely ignorant in science or art as judges over scientists, giving them the power to deal with the latter at their discretion - these are such innovations that can destroy 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 action by the country’s top leadership (https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3046956 ). No official response to this letter has been received, and all of its theses remain relevant. Moreover, over the past time the situation has only worsened: funding for RAS institutes has been declining; 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 young generation of scientists.
In September of this year, elections were held for a new President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a new Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. All candidates for the RAS Presidents became members of the renewed Presidium. In their election programs, the candidates are academicians E.N. Kablov, G.Ya. Krasnikov and R.I. Nigmatulin was supported by most of the theses of "Letters-200" and his main proposal - the re-subordination of the Federal Agency of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the assignment of economic issues and property management of institutions to FASO. All scientific institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences should be an integral part of the Russian Academy of Sciences and conduct research under its leadership. President-elect of the Russian Academy of Sciences Academician A.M. Sergeev in his program also outlined a strategic goal - joint management of the institutes by the Russian Academy of Sciences and FASO, and as a priority he pointed out the need to give the Russian Academy of Sciences a special state status.
Most of the problems of interaction between the Institutes and FASO arise precisely as a result of the inadequate legal status of scientific institutions and the Academy itself. Attempts are being made to apply to scientific organizations the rules of ordinary practice that are obviously inapplicable to them. budget institutions, completely ignoring 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 deceit. The same applies to the ridiculous calculation of standard hours for the production of scientific products, which boils down to feverish adjustment to the required indicators. The number of meaningless reports and plans has multiplied. The latest innovations of FASO link the planned increase in funding for RAS institutes in subsequent years with the absurd requirement for a proportional increase in the number of publications. In reality, a cumbersome and non-working system of science management has been created. The entire style and methods of FASO work are objectively aimed at the destruction of 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 RAS and the status of scientific institutes, and the return of the institutes under the leadership of the RAS. 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-creation of scientific postgraduate studies in the system of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 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, the solution of the main problem - the return of scientific institutes to the RAS - requires only your political will.
If urgent measures are not taken to correct the described tragic situation, then in March 2018 the elected President of Russia will take over a country with a decapitated, 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 free-lance 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. Suris
Academician V.B. Timofeev
Academician S.M. thick
Academician A.K. Tulokhonov
Academician G.A. Filippov
Academician A.I. Holkin
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. rich
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. Ravens
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. Canel
Corresponding member RAS I.T. Kasavin
Corresponding member RAS S.M. chestnuts
Corresponding member RAS R.I. Kapelyushnikov
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Queder
Corresponding member RAS V.P. Coverda
Corresponding member RAS N.V. Kornienko
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Kotov
Corresponding member RAS O.I. Koifman
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. neyland
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. Repin
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. Solomina
Corresponding member RAS N.G. Solomon
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. Chernykh
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
RAS Professor E.S. Danilko
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.S. Desnitsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences I.N. Zilfikarov
RAS Professor I.M. Indrupsky
RAS Professor V.V. Kazakovskaya
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.L. Karchevsky
RAS Professor 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. Fake
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 because of the reform of the academy, a cumbersome and inoperative system of science management has appeared in the country. Scientists should plan how many discoveries they will make and in which journals they will publish articles in the next few years.
This planning is impossible in principle, such requirements lead only to fraud and deceit. The same applies to the ridiculous calculation of "standard hours for the production of scientific products," the authors of the appeal write.
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 action by the country’s top leadership (https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3046956 ). No official response to this letter has been received, and all of its theses remain relevant. Moreover, over the past time the situation has only worsened: funding for RAS institutes has been declining; 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 young generation of scientists.
In September of this year, elections were held for a new President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a new Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. All candidates for the RAS Presidents became members of the renewed presidium. In their election programs, candidates - academicians E.N. Kablov, G.Ya. Krasnikov and R.I. Nigmatulin was supported by most of the theses of "Letters-200" and his main proposal - the re-subordination of the Federal Agency of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the assignment of economic issues and property management of institutions to FASO. All scientific institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences should be an integral part of the Russian Academy of Sciences and conduct research under its leadership. President-elect of the Russian Academy of Sciences Academician A.M. Sergeev in his program also outlined the strategic goal - the joint management of the institutes by the RAS and FASO, and as a priority he pointed out the need to endow the RAS with a special state status.
Most of the problems of interaction between the Institutes and FASO arise precisely as a result of the inadequate legal status of scientific institutions and the Academy itself. Attempts are being made to apply rules that are obviously inapplicable to them from ordinary budgetary institutions to scientific organizations, completely ignoring 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 deceit. The same applies to the ridiculous calculation of standard hours for the production of scientific products, which boils down to feverish adjustment to the required indicators. The number of meaningless reports and plans has multiplied. The latest innovations of FASO link the planned increase in funding for RAS institutes in subsequent years with the absurd requirement for a proportional increase in the number of publications. In reality, a cumbersome and non-working system of science management has been created. The entire style and methods of FANO's work 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 RAS and the status of scientific institutes, and the return of the institutes under the leadership of the RAS. 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-creation of scientific postgraduate studies in the system of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 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, the solution of the main problem - the return of scientific institutes to the RAS - requires only your political will.
If urgent measures are not taken to correct the described tragic situation, then in March 2018 the elected President of Russia will take over a country with a decapitated, 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 free-lance 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. Suris
Academician V.B. Timofeev
Academician S.M. thick
Academician A.K. Tulokhonov
Academician G.A. Filippov
Academician A.I. Holkin
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. rich
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. Ravens
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. Canel
Corresponding member RAS I.T. Kasavin
Corresponding member RAS S.M. chestnuts
Corresponding member RAS R.I. Kapelyushnikov
Corresponding member RAS V.V. Queder
Corresponding member RAS V.P. Coverda
Corresponding member RAS N.V. Kornienko
Corresponding member RAS A.A. Kotov
Corresponding member RAS O.I. Koifman
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. neyland
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. Repin
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. Solomina
Corresponding member RAS N.G. Solomon
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. Chernykh
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
RAS Professor E.S. Danilko
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.S. Desnitsky
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences I.N. Zilfikarov
RAS Professor I.M. Indrupsky
RAS Professor V.V. Kazakovskaya
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.L. Karchevsky
RAS Professor 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. Fake
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. Drums
Doctor of Biological Sciences N.K. Belishcheva
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.S. Belonosov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.N. White
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. Byalko
Doctor of Chemical Sciences F.A. Valeev
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.V. Valkov
Doctor of Economic Sciences A.E. Warsaw
Doctor of Chemical Sciences S.F. Vasilevsky
Doctor of Philology 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. Ginzburg
Doctor of Geographical Sciences S.M. Govorushko
Doctor of Biological Sciences L.A. Golovlev
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. Gora
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. Yeltsov
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. Kasyanov
Doctor of Biological Sciences A.G. Kiseleva
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.G. Klochkova
Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences A.V. Koloskov
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Scientists, academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences wrote an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, in which they expressed dissatisfaction with the course of the reform of the academy 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 (FASO) arise precisely as a result of the inadequate legal status of scientific institutions and the academy itself. They are trying to apply rules that are obviously inapplicable to them from ordinary budgetary institutions to scientific organizations, completely ignoring 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 basically impossible,” the authors of the letter say.
Scientists also note that the innovations of FASO, created in 2013 during the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), “link the planned increase in funding for RAS institutes in subsequent years with an absurd requirement for a proportional increase in the number of publications.” “In reality, a cumbersome and non-working system of science management has been created. The entire style and methods of FASO work are objectively aimed at destroying science as such, not to mention the creative atmosphere necessary for scientific activity,” the letter says.
According to the authors of the letter, it is necessary to urgently change the status of the RAS and scientific institutes, as well as return them under the leadership of the academy. “In the future, it is necessary to take a number of more serious steps, such as: a significant increase in funding for academic science and a radical revision of the structure of this funding; re-creation of scientific postgraduate studies in the system of the Russian Academy of Sciences; complete withdrawal of academic science from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and Science,” the letter says.
If this does not happen, “in March 2018, the elected President of Russia will take over a country with a decapitated, 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 institutions by free-lance scientists,” the authors of the letter hope.
The Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations is a federal executive body that is the founder and owner of the federal property assigned to RAS organizations subordinate to it.
The department was established on September 27, 2013 during the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a result of the transformations, the RAS was merged with the academies of medical and agricultural sciences. The organizations included in the academies and their property were transferred to the management of a new federal authority - FASO of Russia. On January 8, 2014, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev approved a list of 1007 scientific institutions transferred to the agency. In early June 2015, the government approved the rules for coordination between FASO and RAS.
A joint meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Scientific and Coordinating Council under the FASO of Russia will be held today in Moscow: academicians and officials plan to discuss cooperation next year. At the same time, as it became known to Kommersant, a group of 400 scientists sent an open letter to President Vladimir Putin. The authors complain about the "inadequate legal status of scientific institutions and the academy itself" and argue that "the style and methods of work of FASO" 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 course of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is shared by the vast majority of the academic corps." He recalled that the reform began back in 2013, “and if earlier it was possible to refer that not everything was settled, now we clearly see that this step has mostly negative consequences.” Another reason for writing is that the academy's leadership was updated in the fall. “We waited until 100 days pass, the president and the presidium get up to speed,” he added.
The letter says that because of the reform in the country, "a cumbersome and inoperative system of science management" has been created, in which scientists are trying to impose "obviously inapplicable rules of ordinary budgetary institutions."
According to the authors, most of the problems of interaction between institutes and FASO arise "precisely as a result of the inadequate legal status of scientific institutions and the academy itself." Scientists are asking the president to show "political will" and change the legal status of the RAS, while returning to it the scientific institutes that are now subordinate to FASO.
If urgent measures are not taken to correct the described tragic situation, then in March 2018, the elected president of Russia will take over the country with a decapitated, dying fundamental science.
The document was signed by more than 400 academicians, corresponding members and scientists outside the RAS system. Shortly before his death, the linguist Academician Andrei Zaliznyak also signed the appeal (he died on December 24).
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FASO did not comment on the scientists' letter yesterday.
President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev told Kommersant that his colleagues at the academy "are free to express their opinion, this is completely normal." At the same time, he does not agree with the thesis that changing the status of the RAS is only a matter of political will.
“Of course, the status of the FGBU is not enough for the academy to be able to implement the state scientific policy. And I, like the authors of the letter, believe that the issue of changing the status of the Russian Academy of Sciences is overdue,” 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,” the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences explained. “We cannot and do not want to be a ministry or other federal executive body - there is a rigid vertical, the appointment of leadership, and so on. We need to remain a self-governing organization based on elections, but with the right of legislative initiative. There is simply no suitable legal form in the country.”
Alexander Chernykh
