An activist of the rally holds a poster reading: "Head up, Russia's science." The rally is staged near headquarters of Russia's president's administration under the slogan ''Destruction of science is shame of Russia.''
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Ginzburg Blamed Science Collapse on President Putin
The condition of science has deteriorated in time of Putin’s presidency, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Vitaly Ginzburg told The Sunday Telegraph.
The Academy was under the communist control in Stalin’s times, Prof Vitaly Ginzburg said, but “in those days you could come up with an idea and create – that’s how we put the first Sputnik satellite into space. Now the government thinks science must bring only income and profit, which is absurd.”
”Of course it is about Putin. Our democracy is far from ideal,” Ginzburg emphasized angered by authorities’ intention to terminate autonomy of the Academy.
This is just an attempt to gain control over Academy’s money and property, Prof Valery Kozlov commented. Kozlov is the vice president at the Academy.
Peter the Great founded Russia’s Academy of Science in 1724. Nowadays, the Academy employs some 200,000 and 1,200 are its members.
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