Yuri Osipov, president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), hopes the government will confer victory to academicians, and not to their opponent, the Ministry of Education and Science.
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Academicians Come to Government with Their Own Charter
// They refuse to reform the Russian Academy of Sciences
The draft charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) was introduced to the government on Friday. The charter was ratified in March by the general assembly of Russian academicians. It leaves all administrative and financial powers to RAN presidium, and leaves former rules of property management unchanged. Discussion of the draft charter in the government promises to create a scandal.
The draft charter, submitted by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) to the government on Friday, does not satisfy 4 ministries, -- of Education and Science, of Health and Social Development, of Finances, and of Economic Development and Trade. Now it is up to the government to resolve the long-standing confrontation between RAN and the Ministry of Education.
The charter, ratified in March by the general assembly of academicians, absolutely ignores and boycotts the reform developed by the Ministry as an alternative draft charter. The fact that RAN’s draft was submitted to the government means a new whorl of confrontation has started.
Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko made it clear that the influence of RAN presidium can be weakened by reducing the Academy’s property, by means of transferring its social infrastructure under the control of regional and municipal authorities. Meanwhile, the social infrastructure (organizations of social and public service, including catering) makes up over one third of the Academy’s property.
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All the Article in Russian as of June 16, 2007
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