Shubnikov Crystallography Institute Director, Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member Mikhail Kovalchuk gives an interview in his office.
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New Financial Director Filled In to Russian Academy of Sciences
Kurchatovsky Institute director Mikhail Kovalchuk might become commissioned with managing administrative and financial activities of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). He might take the position of the supervisory board head or RAN’s first vice president for financial activities. Kovalchuk cannot become RAN’s president: corresponding members do not have the right of nomination for that position. Academician Viktor Sadovnichy, president of Moscow State University, is the main candidate for RAN’s formal head.
Office of current RAN’s president Yuri Osipov and of its presidium terminates in early spring, when the government ratifies the Academy’s new charter. Authorities have already chosen their candidate for RAN’s new top-manager: Kurchatovsky Institute director Mikhail Kovalchuk. He is to be commissioned with distributing funds allocated for academic science.
However, Kovalchuk cannot become simply the Academy’s president. According to the law for science, only an academician can head RAN, while Kovalchuk is just its corresponding member. Apparently, Kovalchuk has the backing of both the government and the president of Russia.
Moscow State University president Viktor Sadovnichy is seen as the future formal head of the Academy. Academicians do not mind if he is appointed, while some of them object strongly to Kovalchuk’s coming. Spring will show the outcome of the government-academicians opposition: pre-election campaign in RAN will begin after the government ratifies the Academy’s new charter.
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All the Article in Russian as of Feb. 13, 2007
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