Forts: corresponding member will have to pass through the election to the Academy of Sciences - Reuters

MOSCOW, July 5 – RIA Novosti. Automatic “boost” corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences in academics will not, they will have to go through the election in the normal mode, told the head of the Academy of Vladimir Forts.

“This is not a stroke of a bureaucrat’s will be done, and the need to demonstrate their level,” – said Forts.

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Deputy Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Ivanov explained that the revised version of the draft law on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences suggests that the corresponding member will have to pass through the choices in the normal mode. In this case, then, the very name will be abolished.

According to him, some problems remain with the fact that if a corresponding member of this procedure will not work, he as a member of the Academy can not simply be excluded from it. According to Ivanov, the issue will be further developed.

the eve of the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Alexander Zhukov said that the one-time conversion of all corresponding members in academics will not, this will occur within three years of careful consideration by the statute and of the Academy itself.

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