In October, 25 officials ran for membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences, 14 of them were elected, Academician Mikhail Paltsev, chief scientific secretary of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS. Senator, member of the Federation Council committee on international affairs Arnold Tulokhonov (became an academician) and head of the main military medical department of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun (became a corresponding member) passed to the Academy. Fisun called Fingers a famous military scientist.
On November 23, President Vladimir Putin at the Council on Science and Education expressed dissatisfaction with why several officials became academicians this year, although he gave them a reverse recommendation. He promised to give such officials "the opportunity to engage in science, because, apparently, their scientific activity is much more important than the performance of some routine administrative duties in government and administration." As Vedomosti found out, the highest-ranking official who could become an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the department of medical sciences was Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova in the autumn elections. Her name was on the list of candidates published in the Poisk newspaper of the Russian Academy of Sciences in June, but then she changed her mind and withdrew her candidacy, a source in the Russian Academy of Sciences said. The highest-ranking security official elected as a corresponding member of the department of law was Deputy Minister of the Interior - Head of the Investigation Department Alexander Savenkov.
According to Paltsev, several major designers have passed through the Russian Academy of Sciences. “Since they head state-owned enterprises, they are civil servants by status, but they, of course, are engaged in science, they develop weapons. This is military science,” he explained.
Alexei Lopatin, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, also became an academician, TASS reports. From 2006 to 2015, he was Deputy Director for Research at the Paleontological Institute. A. A. Borisyak RAS.
Corresponding members except Fisun in October became Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Main Medical Department of the Presidential Administration Konstantin Kotenko, who was previously the General Director of the Federal Medical Biophysical Center. A. I. Burnazyan, Doctor of Law, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alexander Savenkov, Doctor of Law, Head of the Registration and Archival Funds Department of the FSB Vasily Khristoforov, Doctor of Medicine, Director of the Department of Science, Innovative Development and Management of Medical and Biological Health Risks of the Ministry of Health Sergey Rumyantsev. In addition, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Igor Sheremet became a corresponding member.
At the Presidential Council on Science and Education, Vladimir Putin reprimanded the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the fact that 14 officials were elected academicians this year, including employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The election came against his recommendation for civil servants not to become professional scientists. Why are Putin more concerned about the elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences than the strategy of the country's scientific and technological development?
power over officials
The vertical of power, carefully built by Vladimir Putin, failed in an unexpected place. In October 2015, he wrote a letter to Russian officials containing a strong recommendation (according to another version, a request) to refuse to participate in the elections of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2016, the RAS was supposed to replenish its staff with academicians and corresponding members for the first time since the reform three years ago, when scientists were removed from economic activity and control over their resources was tightened.
Therefore, it would not be a big exaggeration to say that the head of state closely followed not only the presidential elections in the United States - he was no less worried about who would be elected as members of the "big academy", as he calls the Russian Academy of Sciences. Moreover, for domestic politics, the elections in the scientific community turned out to be more significant in a certain sense.
Questions arose on October 28, when the RAS announced the results of a "new call" to its ranks: 176 scientists joined the number of academicians, 323 people became corresponding members. Despite the presidential letter, 25 officials put forward their candidacies for voting, including Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, and 14 eventually achieved the high status of academicians.
And although there were fewer bureaucrats in science than in previous appeals, the very fact of disobedience and disobedience to the first person became more important than the "Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development", which since July 2015 was written by 200 experts, and another 3 thousand provided advice. At the Council under the President of Russia on Science and Education on November 23, it turned out that the document for which everyone had gathered, many would like to finalize and make their own changes to it. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich even asked scientists to write in an understandable language, since he did not see the point in a good part of the text. However, the document seemed to the President "detailed and balanced", he clearly wanted to discuss another topic.
At the event in the Catherine's Hall of the Kremlin, they also spoke about the need to increase investment in science to 2% of GDP, and by 2035 to ensure that public and private investments are equal in volume. Since today 80% of funding is provided by the state and this is not in line with international practice, noted the head of the Council for Science, Andrey Fursenko.
Quite unexpectedly, Putin equated science and technology with national security - if we do not invest today, tomorrow the country will lose in global competition. The president probably had in mind, first of all, advanced weapons: reports of the deployment of the latest rocket launchers have been coming in all week. So, for example, he responded with a smile to the attempt to "trade in threats" on the part of scientists, refusing to consider civilian projects as "disruptive innovations": the Alibaba online store with a turnover of $ 1 billion per day and the Uber taxi service, whose capitalization on the exchange is equal to the cost of Rosneft.
Much more, according to the president, Russia's national security is threatened by the outflow of "talented youth." "How to keep her in the country?" he asked the age nomenclature. After all, “those who want to take them away, especially away from their native borders,” have jobs where young scientists from Russia are invited to build a scientific career. However, the bureaucratic response to the country's loss of scientific potential was known - to develop a multi-page document with the title "Strategy" and approve it at a purely formal meeting. Meanwhile, the average age of academicians in Russia is 73.67 years.
Power over academics
Reflections aloud by the President of Russia preceded the main episode of the meeting - the public scolding of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov. Fourteen officials who became academicians demonstrated collective disobedience and direct disobedience to the president. Among them are security officials: Vasily Khristoforov, head of the registration and archival funds department of the FSB, known as a major researcher and historian of the special services, as well as Alexander Savenkov, deputy minister of internal affairs and head of the investigative department, who wrote more than 50 scientific papers, three monographs and 15 textbooks. In addition, the presidential request was ignored by Senator Arnold Tulokhonov, a scientist and explorer of Lake Baikal; Deputy Head of the Hydrometeorological Center Alexander Makosko; Gazprom board member Oleg Aksyutin and others.
Most of the high-ranking officials elected as academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences are really engaged in scientific activities and have distinguished themselves by their work. But Putin was of little interest. "Why did you do it?" - he asked the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences in front of everyone. “They are such great scientists that the Academy of Sciences cannot do without them?” the president blurted out. Fortov had to shrug his shoulders and clarify: if they were chosen, then they are worthy scientists. However, Putin did not listen to him: it is impossible to combine scientific work with management, let alone politics, and promised to dismiss the newly-minted academicians from government positions.
On the one hand, the president's indignation seemed justified and correct: it is known why officials in Russia go into science - according to the old Soviet tradition, which is reproduced to this day, behind a privileged status. Various public initiatives, such as Dissernet, are precisely aimed at identifying officials who have appropriated degrees and titles that are not deserved by scientific and research work. Due to public pressure “for prestige”, it has become more difficult to be a scientist, and even an academician.
Dissertations bought in a subway passage with plagiarism, a pseudoscientific basis and outright nonsense can cost an official dearly and undermine his authority, as happened with the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. Nevertheless, the young head of his Administration, Anton Vaino, sat on the right hand of the president on the Council for Science, who invented the "nooscope" on paper - a kind of non-existent device for viewing Vernadsky's noosphere, that is, the "sphere of reason". So the fight against the erudition of the Russian bureaucracy really resembles the cleaning of the Augean stables.
However, according to the president's logic, it's one thing to be a "cat-scientist" and hold a government post, and another thing to become an academician. Although the relatives of academicians, who also aspire to the coveted title, seem to be worse than bureaucrats in science. But, as with officials, there are dozens of such cases for more than 500 new academicians and corresponding members. In general, the picture does not look critical and does not require the intervention of the president.
There is no need for it for another reason: doing science is not prohibited by the law "On the State Civil Service", and the charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences allows the election of civil servants as academicians, since the main criterion for evaluating a candidate is scientific merit. According to the established procedure, the profile sections of the Academy make a choice, then it is approved at the general meeting. Both procedures are secret ballot. The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Fortov cannot influence the elections in the professional community.
Officials of the Presidential Administration, who are convinced that the president of the Academy should have “expressed his opinion” when high-ranking civil servants put forward their candidacies, cannot believe in the latter. If they consider themselves entitled to interfere in elections at any level, then what is the problem with the RAS? Democracy and the degree of independence of the scientific community from the state must stung the representatives of the Kremlin, who are used to controlling the political sphere. For Putin himself, who supported the division of the Russian Academy of Sciences several years ago, during which it was completely subordinate to his vertical, it is completely incomprehensible why Fortov did not follow the implementation of his “recommendation”. The President of the Academy, in turn, is not clear why Putin's officials did not do this if he turned to them.
From Putin's point of view, everyone has lost fear and fundamentally disobeys, breaking the harmony of the ranks. How, relatively speaking, to scare the USA and Europe, when his power is not absolute inside the country? Insignificant for the country as a whole, the elections for academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences cast doubt on the effectiveness of the power vertical. They are another excuse to clean up the ranks. The instrumental meaning of the presidential anger was to mobilize the bureaucracy, which now must keep an eye on it: if a year ago the head of state recommended something to you, and you listened and disobeyed, then hand over your party card and get out into the street.
Once, Stalin similarly besieged Foreign Minister Molotov, who was delighted with being elected an honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Then the leader called membership in a scientific organization "a secondary matter" for a statesman. Molotov immediately admitted the mistake and repented. Thus, the vertical of power and the indisputability of the authority of the first person have been preserved. Will officials listen to Putin?
President Vladimir Putin publicly threatened to fire officials who became academics against his strong recommendation last year.
Then Putin asked them to "refrain" from participating in the elections of academicians and correspondent members - because officials "can only engage in scientific research in their free time, which, in fact, is not left for people who conscientiously work in administrative positions."
Not everyone abstained: in the last elections to the RAS, Arnold Tulokhonov, a member of the Federation Council from Buryatia, and Alexei Lopatin, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, became full academicians; resigned in August), Deputy Head of Roshydromet Alexander Makosko, Head of the Registration and Archival Funds Department of the FSB Vasily Khristoforov, Director of the Department of Science, Innovative Development and Management of Medical and Biological Health Risks of the Ministry of Health Sergey Rumyantsev, Head of the Main Medical Directorate of the Presidential Administration Konstantin Kotenko, Head of the Main of the military medical department of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun and deputy director of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Igor Sheremet.
Among the candidates were even higher-ranking persons: for example, the list of candidates for academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the department of medical sciences included Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova. The lists of potential academicians included Senator Andrei Klishas, Governor of the Tambov Region Alexander Nikitin, Head of the Federal Archival Agency Andrei Artizov, Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region and Minister of Agriculture Vyacheslav Vasilenko, Minister of Health and Resorts of Karachay-Cherkessia Hussein Kurdanov, and others. At the same time, Skvortsova and Nikitin their candidatures, according to the RAS, were withdrawn even before the elections.
Of course, it is impossible to say that the newly elected academicians and correspondent members received their titles without being scientists: for example, Arnold Tulokhonov is a doctor of geographical sciences, a professor who headed the Baikal Institute of Nature Management for 12 years; Vasily Khristoforov, Doctor of Law, worked for many years at the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Alexander Makosko is a doctor of technical sciences, a professor, a well-known specialist in atmospheric physics, etc. But just the same
It is a fact that it is really impossible to combine public office and scientific work. Especially the work of an academician, whose main function by status is to enrich science with new knowledge.
In this sense, the president is right when he says that “I will have to give them the opportunity to do science, because, apparently, their scientific activity is much more important than the performance of some routine administrative duties in government and administration.” And it is quite possible that the listed characters will have to go on academic leave from their positions. Or voluntarily give up academic robes.
The tradition of "graduation of the authorities", of course, did not appear in Putin's or Yeltsin's times - it is quite Soviet, when an academic degree was considered an important supplement to an administrative position.
Often this degree was organized for the current boss by the efforts of subordinates who wrote the corresponding work to the “boss”. If the bosses were very high, they could, like Grigory Romanov, the first secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU, award a doctoral degree when defending a candidate, having become delighted with the depth of his scientific achievements.
However, it rarely reached academicians: it seems that in the Soviet era, nevertheless, more often an academician was appointed a minister than a minister was made an academician.
In the first post-Soviet times, the process slowed down, and then went on with renewed vigor: a minister, governor or State Duma deputy without a degree became a rarity. First - candidate, then - doctoral.
It is not necessary to be a scientist: few people seriously consider Zhirinovsky, Doctor of Philosophy, or Medinsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences, to be scientists. Yes, and the candidate of economic sciences Putin is difficult to attribute to them. And such cases as with Grigory Yavlinsky, who defended his doctoral dissertation, having already resigned as a State Duma deputy, are quite rare.
Gradually, there were, apparently, so many doctors of sciences that you won’t surprise anyone with this. And I had to go further - to academics. Moreover, in the real ones - the Russian Academy of Sciences (the titles of the prolific pseudo-academies are no longer honored).
You can understand officials: an academician or a correspondent member is not only a beautiful inscription on a business card, it is also solid payments. An academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences is entitled to 100 thousand rubles a month, a correspondent member - 50 thousand. At the same time, ministers or deputy ministers can be fired at any time, but not academicians or correspondent members: the titles are for life, as are payments. And in which case, very useful in life.
Putin fired officials who violated his ban on election to the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vasily Khristoforov, Konstantin Kotenko, Alexander Savenkov and Alexander Fisun (left to right)
Vladimir Putin fired four officials elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has previously expressed dissatisfaction with this practice. The dismissed worked in the FSB, the Ministry of Defense, the presidential administration and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the RAS, they were really actively engaged in scientific activities. The deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education, Lyubov Dukhanina, believes that it is necessary to clearly define restrictions on the combination of non-core activities by officials with their main work.
Russian President Vladimir Putin fired four officials, each of whom successfully passed elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences. Last week, Vladimir Putin reprimanded the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov for allowing officials to participate in the elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences. The President reminded that earlier he asked to refrain from such practice.
“Nevertheless, some of our colleagues from the presidential administration, from the Ministry of Education, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, from the Ministry of Defense, from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and from some other departments took part in the election and were elected,” Putin said at the meeting of the Council for Science and Education last Wednesday.
The President raised the question of whether these officials can simultaneously engage in serious scientific research and perform their duties at the duty station.
Putin repeatedly asked Fortov if the elected members of the RAS were "great scientists", to which the latter diplomatically noted that they were worthy of election. However, the president was not satisfied with this answer.
“I think that I will have to give them the opportunity to do science, because, apparently, their scientific activity is much more important than the performance of some kind of routine administrative duties in government and administration,” Putin said.
The very next Monday, decrees on the dismissal of officials from their places of work appeared on the official website of the Kremlin.
Now there were only four former officials, one from each department, which the president listed. However, each of these officials, apparently, was really connected with scientific activity.
So, in the FSB, Lieutenant General Vasily Khristoforov, who led the registration and archival funds department of the FSB, lost his position. If all his other colleagues in the civil service were dismissed of their own free will, then in his case the reason is "reaching the age limit for military service."
Khristoforov was elected as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the information on the website of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the main results of scientific activity, in particular, are: research on the basis of documents from state and departmental archives of issues of the military history of the USSR and the main problems of the activities of domestic security agencies.
Also, according to the reference of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Khristoforov, based on his own experience and archival materials, comprehensively analyzed the socio-political life of Afghanistan in the 1980s, as well as the evolution of Soviet-Afghan relations.
The next dismissed is the head of the main military medical department of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun, also elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the reference of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he is an honored doctor of the Russian Federation, chairman of the special expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science for medical sciences.
One example of the scientific achievements of a military doctor is the substantiation and implementation of "modern organizational approaches to the medical supply management system that provide the required level of combat and mobilization readiness of the medical service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation."
Another doctor, the head of the Main Medical Directorate of the Presidential Administration, Konstantin Kotenko, was also relieved of his post. He is the author of more than 300 scientific papers, including 10 monographs, 46 manuals and 10 patents. The certificate of the Russian Academy of Sciences states that he participated in the creation of more than 15 scientific medical centers, and also made a significant contribution to the development of restorative medicine and created a new scientific school.
The last of the high-ranking dismissed is Alexander Savenkov, Deputy Interior Minister, head of the Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry.
“Specialist in the field of criminal law, criminal procedure, forensic science, author of more than 50 scientific papers, including 3 monographs, 15 textbooks and teaching aids (11 co-authored),” the RAS note says.
Among the scientific achievements is the study of the formation of the criminal policy of the Russian state in the context of the development of international legal foundations for combating crime.
Political scientist Yevgeny Minchenko considers the dismissals a natural continuation of the "public flogging" that Putin arranged last week - "this is already playing out the game." At the same time, the expert does not consider layoffs indicative:
“The same Savenkov from the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not an ordinary person at all. There are no people who are inside the system of power structures and are not related to "power games". Even the very fact of the neutrality of this or that character is already one of the factors of the general disposition.
According to Minchenko, Putin "wooled the elites over the past year and intends to continue to do so."
“One of the manifestations of this trend is the fire on headquarters,” the political scientist shrugs his shoulders.
Political scientist Gleb Kuznetsov laughed when asked about Khristoforov. Who is Khristoforov? I don't know that. This is in the case of academics, or what? he commented laughing.
“Well, what can I say, this is labor discipline. If they were told to jump, then they should get up and jump. If you want to keep your post, you must obey the leaders. Apparently not everyone got it. This unfortunate Khristoforov, the victim of an educational act, just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong hour. Whatever Nobel laureate you are, you must unquestioningly obey your leader. I think that the next generation of officials will be more disciplined.”
Lyubov Dukhanina, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, said that "it would be expedient to more clearly define the possibilities for officials to combine non-core activities." According to the deputy, judging by the "clear message of the president", the definition of these issues with the help of the law or the relevant government decree is possible in the near future.
What does the title of academician or correspondent member give today?
Less than in Soviet times, but also a lot. In addition to honor and respect, this is a certain, and lifelong, monetary allowance.
In 2013, at the height of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the stipend was raised for members of the Academy, and academicians began to receive 100 thousand rubles, corresponding members - 50 thousand.
In addition, they can, if necessary, call a car from the academic garage for one-time trips. In addition, members of the academy are attached to the polyclinic of the Administration of the President of Russia; they, along with family members, were attached there last summer. It is possible to use the services of various resort establishments, one of which is the Uzkoye sanatorium in Moscow, and others.
However, there is another privilege that comes with being a member of the RAS.
“I also have the right to have a civil memorial service for me at the Academy of Sciences. In the "Golden Brains" (the building of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt) there is a funeral hall, and when members of the academy die, a civil memorial service takes place there, ”the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences joked.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dismissed Deputy Minister of Education and Science Alexei Lopatin from his post at his request, TASS reports citing the government press service.
"[Dmitry Medvedev] signed an order to dismiss Lopatin from the post of Deputy Minister of Education and Science at his request," the press service of the Cabinet reported.
It is specified that Lopatin is listed in the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Vladimir Fortov is not ready to employ high-ranking officials dismissed by the president for combining civil service and scientific activities. He stated this to the National News Service (NSN) on Monday, November 28.
“Where they want to work, they will decide for themselves, they didn’t tell me anything about this,” Fortov said. He noted that "he knows many [of those fired], but not all, of course."
Earlier on Monday, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science Boris Chernyshov expressed hope that officials dismissed for being elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences would show a breakthrough in scientific knowledge.
Prior to this, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed four high-ranking officials from the head of state's managerial department, the FSB, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said they were fired due to their election to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On November 23, the head of state was indignant at the fact that officials were included in the number of academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, contrary to his instructions not to combine civil service and scientific activity.
wrote in July of this year. Then a source in the Russian Academy of Sciences said that there was a decision by President Vladimir Putin to ban officials from participating in elections to the Academy of Sciences. On November 23, at a meeting of the Council for Science and Education, Vladimir Putin indicated to officials and employees of state-owned companies who were elected to the RAS that they could change jobs, because they did not heed his words. As the president stressed, he personally gave recommendations not to be elected to the RAS in writing in October last year.
We are talking, first of all, about the heads of federal authorities, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as well as the heads of state corporations, state companies and joint-stock companies with state participation and their deputies. At a meeting of the Council, Vladimir Putin demanded an explanation from the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Fortov.
In all likelihood, the acting Minister of Health of the Perm Territory Olga Kovtun, the director of the Department of Science, Innovative Development and Management of Biomedical Health Risks of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Sergey Rumyantsev, the head of the main medical department of the Presidential Administration Konstantin Kotenko, the head of the main military medical Department (GVMU) of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Alexander Savenkov and Head of the Registration and Archival Funds Department (URAF) of the FSB of the Russian Federation Vasily Khristoforov.
Initially, the meeting of the Council was devoted to the discussion of the draft strategy for the scientific and technological development of Russia. The head of state stated the importance of scientific progress for the country, that it is impossible to save money on fundamental science in order to prevent the Russian Federation from lagging behind other countries. There was a calm, constructive conversation, there were no disputes. But after everyone had spoken, Vladimir Putin raised the personnel issue. And he recalled his request to officials, representatives of law enforcement agencies and employees of state-owned companies - not to participate in the elections of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
– Nevertheless, some colleagues from the Office of Presidential Affairs, from the Ministry of Education, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, from the Ministry of Defense, from the Federal Security Service, and from some other departments took part in the election and were elected. Vladimir Evgenievich, I have a question for you and other representatives of the Academy of Sciences, why did you do this? Are they such prominent scientists that the Academy of Sciences cannot do without them? This is the first question. And the second question: what should I do with it now? Putin asked the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Fortov.
“They all said they got permission from their leaders,” Fortov tried to justify himself. However, the President's response was not satisfactory.
No, that was not the question. Are they such great scientists that they should be corresponding members and academics? – said Putin.
Fortov replied that these citizens went through the entire election procedure without violations and were worthy to join the RAS. After which the president said: “I think I should give them the opportunity to do science. Because, apparently, their scientific activity is much more important than the performance of some routine administrative duties in government and administration.”
After the meeting, the president explained to journalists that if a person is successful in science, then he can hardly devote much time to this area, holding an important public position. The head of state explained that his words concern various representatives of the authorities, including the governor's corps.
- If someone thought that it was more important for him to engage in research activities - indeed, then, apparently, these are prominent scientists and their work in this area will bring much more benefit to the country, society, as I said, than performing routine functions in leadership bodies through government agencies. This is an obvious thing. Therefore, they apparently chose creative, research work for themselves, and I want to wish them success,” Vladimir Putin mocked.
As Izvestia wrote in the summer, the purpose of such a presidential decision is to give growth opportunities to those who are closely involved in science, and to protect them from the need to compete with officials with their administrative resources.
In the October elections, Senator Arnold Tulokhonov, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Head of the Investigation Department Alexander Savenkov, Head of the Registration and Archival Collections Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation Vasily Khristoforov, Deputy Director for Science of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Igor Sheremet became Academicians or Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
As Arnold Tulokhonov previously reported to Izvestia, "his scientific work complements his senatorial duties."
I am nominated by the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where I am the supervisor. I need it because it is the degree of scientific qualification that is necessary for the development of science in general. I have about 400 works in the field of political geography, which I am currently working on as a member of the Federation Council and a specialist in the field of geography, ”Arnold Tulokhonov told Izvestia in July this year.
On Wednesday, after the scandal broke out, Senator Arnold Tulokhonov told Izvestia that he fully agreed with the head of state.
– The President is absolutely right, in no case should officials be allowed into science. Candidate, if a person wants, let him defend, but doctoral and other scientific research require a lot of time, and officials should not have and do not have this time. Either this or that. This system has appeared since the 90s, and when I communicate with people, I always ask the year of the doctoral dissertation. If after 1990, then with rare exceptions, I do not trust a person. We have a lot of people who got into science with the help of their positions,” the senator explained.
Tulokhonov does not consider his election to the RAS to be a violation of ethical or other norms.
- The legislation states that the legislature has the right to engage in educational and scientific activities. The president's reprimand refers to officials - representatives of the civil service, executive authorities, - the senator said - In relation to myself, I can say that my specialty helps me a lot in my work. As a member of the Academy, as a geographer by education, I prepare laws on the Arctic and the Far East, and as a specialist I see problems that an official cannot understand. And being engaged in political geography as a member of the committee on international affairs, I work a lot on developing relations with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China. There are two elected academicians in our parliament - Zhores Alferov in the State Duma and me in the Federation Council. There are two more - Vladimir Kashin and Gennady Onishchenko. But Kashin came from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Onishchenko from the Academy of Medical Sciences. They became academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a result of the reforms that brought the three academies together.
Arnold Tulokhonov emphasized that “the law does not have retroactive effect, and the elected ones will be academicians and correspondent members” and “it is the right of the president to release one of the officials from a bureaucratic position. Some fit, some don't."
Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Andrey Klishas, who also claimed the title of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, but was not elected, did not rule out his participation in the next elections.
“When new elections are announced in the Russian Academy of Sciences, then I will make a decision,” the parliamentarian told Izvestia.
The list of candidates for academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences was also Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, who since 2004 has been a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. However, according to Izvestia's sources in the Russian Academy of Sciences, Veronika Skvortsova withdrew her candidacy long before the elections.
As Oleg Salagai, director of the Department of Public Health and Communications of the Ministry of Health of Russia, told Izvestia, “Russian Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova did not take part in the elections to the academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016.”
- Veronika Igorevna is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which she was elected long before entering the civil service, - Oleg Salagai explained.
"Izvestia" clarified with the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov whether the academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who hold various positions in government structures, have a chance to remain in their positions. Peskov replied that there is no clarity on this issue yet.
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Tkachev Igor Ivanovich (nuclear physics)*
Trubnikov Grigory Vladimirovich (nuclear physics)*
For vacancies for the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ratakhin Nikolai Aleksandrovich (physics)
Logachev Pavel Vladimirovich (nuclear physics)
Yalandin Mikhail Ivanovich (Physics)*
Mushnikov Nikolai Varfolomeevich (Physics of Magnetic Phenomena)*
Department of Nanotechnologies and Information Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Soifer Viktor Aleksandrovich (optical systems and informatics)
Popkov Yury Solomonovich (information technologies in control systems)
Chaplygin Yury Alexandrovich (computing, location, telecommunication systems and element base)
Saurov Alexander Nikolaevich (nanotechnologies in microelectronics and microsystem engineering)
Dubina Mikhail Vladimirovich (nanobiotechnology)
Konov Vitaly Ivanovich (nanotechnology)
Latyshev Alexander Vasilyevich (element base, nanodiagnostics)
Department of Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics and Control Processes of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Bolshov Leonid Aleksandrovich (nuclear power engineering)
Filippov Sergey Petrovich (energy)*
Klimenko Alexander Viktorovich (thermal physics)
Petrov Oleg Fedorovich (Thermophysics)*
Son Eduard Evgenievich (electrophysics)
Garanin Sergey Grigorievich (electrophysics)*
Vasiliev Valery Vitalievich (mechanics)
Surzhikov Sergey Timofeevich (mechanics)
Aleshin Boris Sergeevich (control processes, mechanical engineering)
Chernyshev Sergey Leonidovich (management processes, mechanical engineering)
Zheltov Sergey Yurievich (management processes, mechanical engineering)*
Kalyaev Igor Anatolyevich (management processes, mechanical engineering)* Yakushenko Evgeny Ivanovich (management processes, mechanical engineering)*
Alekseenko Sergey Vladimirovich (thermal physics)
Predtechensky Mikhail Rudolfovich (mechanical engineering)
Degtyar Vladimir Grigorievich (mechanical engineering)
Department of Chemistry and Materials Sciences RAS
Milekhin Yuri Mikhailovich (technical chemistry)
Dedov Alexey Georgievich (Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials)
Boinovich Lyudmila Borisovna (Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials)
Grechnikov Fedor Vasilyevich (Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials)*
Lysak Vladimir Ilyich (structural materials)
Rudskoy Andrey Ivanovich (structural materials)
Meshalkin Valery Pavlovich (chemical technology)
For vacancies for the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ovcharenko Victor Ivanovich (chemistry)
Bukhtiyarov Valery Ivanovich (chemistry)*
Kozhevnikov Victor Leonidovich (chemistry)
Department of Biological Sciences RAS
Gabibov Alexander Gabibovich (physical and chemical biology)
Nedospasov Sergey Arturovich (physico-chemical biology)
Dontsova Olga Anatolyevna (physico-chemical biology)*
Rozhnov Vyacheslav Vladimirovich (ecology)
Yankovsky Nikolai Kazimirovich (genetics)
Lopatin Alexey Vladimirovich (general biology)*
Pugachev Oleg Nikolaevich (zoology)
Rozhnov Sergey Vladimirovich (paleontology)
For a vacancy for the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ivshina Irina Borisovna (microbiology)
Department of Earth Sciences RAS
Vernikovsky Valery Arnoldovich (geology)
Artyushkov Evgeny Viktorovich (geophysics)
Sobolev Alexander Vladimirovich (geochemistry)
Weisberg Leonid Abramovich (mining sciences, geoecology)
Mokhov Igor Ivanovich (atmospheric physics)
Tulokhonov Arnold Kirillovich (geography, water resources)
Ivanov Vitaly Alexandrovich (oceanology)
Dolgikh Grigory Ivanovich (oceanology)
For a vacancy for the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ermilov Oleg Mikhailovich (geology and development of gas fields)
For a vacancy for the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Chibilev Alexander Alexandrovich (geography)
Department of Social Sciences RAS
Porfiriev Boris Nikolaevich (Economics)
Smirnov Andrey Vadimovich (philosophy)*
Zhuravlev Anatoly Laktionovich (psychology)
Department of Historical and Philological Sciences RAS
Medvedev Igor Pavlovich (history)
Piotrovsky Mikhail Borisovich (history)
Buzhilova Alexandra Petrovna (history)
Anikin Alexander Evgenievich (history)
Tolstaya Svetlana Mikhailovna (philology)
Plungyan Vladimir Alexandrovich (Philology)
For a vacancy for the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Bazarov Boris Vandanovich (history, oriental studies)*
Department of Global Issues and International Relations RAS
Mikheev Vasily Vasilievich (world economy)
Chufrin Gennady Illarionovich (world economy)
Naumkin Vitaly Vyacheslavovich (international relations, Arabic studies)
Department of Physiological Sciences RAS
Magazanik Lev Girshevich (physiology)
Medvedev Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich (physiology)
Ioseliani David Georgievich (fundamental medicine)
Orlov Oleg Igorevich (fundamental medicine)*
Department of Agricultural Sciences RAS
Semin Alexander Nikolaevich (economics and agricultural management)
Andrey Paptsov (Economics and Agricultural Management)*
Dolgushkin Nikolai Kuzmich (economy of land relations and social development of the village)
Zakshevsky Vasily Georgievich (economy of land relations and social development of the village)*
Zavalin Alexey Anatolievich (general agriculture)
Sheudzhen Askhad Khazretovich (general agriculture)
Turusov Victor Ivanovich (general agriculture)*
Borodychev Viktor Vladimirovich (reclamation and water management)
Egorov Viktor Nikolaevich (reclamation and water management)
Rulev Alexander Sergeevich (forestry)
Alabushev Andrey Vasilyevich (plant growing)
Egorov Evgeny Alekseevich (plant growing)
Sinegovskaya Valentina Timofeevna (plant growing)
Batalova Galina Arkadievna (plant growing)*
Goncharov Nikolai Petrovich (plant growing*
Kosolapov Vladimir Mikhailovich (plant growing*
Ryndin Alexey Vladimirovich (plant growing)*
Afanasenko Olga Sylvestrovna (plant protection and biotechnology)
Vlasenko Natalia Georgievna (plant protection and biotechnology)
Karakotov Salis Dobaevich (plant protection and biotechnology)
Kochish Ivan Ivanovich (zootechnics)
Trukhachev Vladimir Ivanovich (zootechnics)
Tyapugin Evgeniy Aleksandrovich (zootechnics)*
Dorozhkin Vasily Ivanovich (veterinary)
Javadov Eduard Javadovich (veterinary)*
Klimenko Alexander Ivanovich (veterinary)*
Stekolnikov Anatoly Aleksandrovich (veterinary)*
Fedorenko Vyacheslav Filippovich (mechanization and automation of agricultural production)
Ivanov Yury Anatolyevich (mechanization and automation of agricultural production)
Alt Viktor Valentinovich (electrification of agriculture)
Avidzba Anatoly Mkanovich (storage and processing of agricultural products)
Petrov Andrey Nikolaevich (storage and processing of agricultural products)
Rimareva Lyubov Vyacheslavovna (veterinary medicine)*
Department of Medical Sciences RAS
Sidorova Iraida Stepanovna (obstetrics and gynecology)
Kurtser Mark Arkadievich (obstetrics and gynecology)
Polushin Yury Sergeevich (anesthesiology and resuscitation)
Maev Igor Veniaminovich (gastroenterology)*
Baindurashvili Alexey Georgievich (pediatric traumatology and orthopedics)
Peterkova Valentina Aleksandrovna (pediatric endocrinology)
Golukhova Elena Zelikovna (cardiology)*
Chazova Irina Evgenievna (cardiology)*
Khubulava Gennady Grigorievich (cardiac surgery)*
Romanov Alexander Ivanovich (clinical rehabilitation)
Lyadov Konstantin Viktorovich (clinical rehabilitation)*
Reshetov Igor Vladimirovich (microsurgery)*
Piradov Mikhail Aleksandrovich (neurology)*
Pronin Igor Nikolaevich (neuroroentgenology)*
Shcherbuk Yuri Alexandrovich (neurosurgery)
Poddubnaya Irina Vladimirovna (oncohematology)
Ashrafyan Levon Andreevich (oncogynecology)
Dolgushin Boris Ivanovich (oncoradiology)
Kaprin Andrey Dmitrievich (oncoradiology)*
Yanov Yury Konstantinovich (otorhinolaryngology)
Leyla Seymurovna Namazova-Baranova (pediatrics)*
Gavrilenko Alexander Vasilyevich (vascular surgery)
Weber Victor Robertovich (therapy)
Porkhanov Vladimir Alekseevich (thoracic surgery)
Khubutia Mogeli Shalvovich (transplantology and artificial organs)
Loran Oleg Borisovich (urology)
Glybochko Petr Vitalievich (urology)*
Kamalov Armais Albertovich (urology-andrology)*
Kulakov Anatoly Alekseevich (maxillofacial surgery)
Shestakova Marina Vladimirovna (endocrinology)*
Bogolepova Irina Nikolaevna (histology)
Karaulov Alexander Viktorovich (clinical immunology)
Andrey V. Lisitsa (Medical Proteomics)*
Govorun Vadim Markovich (physico-chemical medicine)*
Beregovoy Valery Vasilievich (Pharmacy)
Totolyan Areg Artemovich (infectious immunology)*
Dyatlov Ivan Alekseevich (Medical Microbiology)*
Solodkiy Vladimir Alekseevich (public health and healthcare)
Akimkin Vasily Gennadievich (epidemiology)*
For a vacancy for the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kolosov Viktor Pavlovich (pulmonology)
For vacancies for the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Popov Sergey Valentinovich (cardiology)*
Bokhan Nikolay Aleksandrovich (narcology)*
Voivode Mikhail Ivanovich Medical (genetics)
Kolesnikova Lyubov Ilyinichna (general pathology)
For vacancies for the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Medvedeva Irina Vasilievna (therapy)*
Vazhenin Andrey Vladimirovich (oncology)*
Dolgushin Ilya Ilyich (clinical immunology)
* - young scientist
