Friday, October 30, 2015

The state budget for science Russia reduced by 20% – REGNUM

Moscow, October 30, 2015, 00:18 – REGNUM «For the first time in Russia in the budget there is no line of science,” – said IA REGNUM a member of the Federation Council Committee on Science, Education, Culture and Information Policy, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Arnold Tulokhonov. According to the senator, perplexed about this, he said at the hearings in the Federation Council after the report of Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on the budget for 2016. “With some difficulty the last page, I found that science is allocated 0.3% of GDP, – said Arnold Tulokhonov. – Never in my life this amount of money is not allocated. That’s why I said that in a country with such a budget will not see progress ».

In fact, in the article” The cost structure of the budgetary system of the Russian Federation on the sections of the functional classification “among the 13 points the science does not appear. “There are housing, education, health, cinema, sports, science and where? – It surprised the senator – There is no science in this list. After decryption of each item, there was suddenly a science for civilian use. Moreover, the very sparingly written only costs a decrease of 50 billion compared to the previous year ».

was the reaction of the Council of Federation on your words? – REGNUM correspondent asked a question of Senator.

«The people clapped, and the others pretended that nothing happened. And Minister Siluanov said that the world usually pays for science business. But in Russia, I have not seen such business. ” This idea senator continued for 380 th meeting of the Federation Council on Tuesday, adding that “science in Russia only need a state, and sad to talk about it at a meeting of the supreme legislative body of the country».

Arnold Tulokhonov commented on in the Council Federation report of the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov, who painted a rosy picture of education in the country: 100% availability of pre-school education, built 1,000 new kindergarten buildings, adopting modern standards of school education in 2016 will be launched the project “Electronic School” by the number circles we reached Soviet levels, etc. Particular attention is paid to the Minister 5-100 Project, aimed at “maximizing the competitive position of a group of leading Russian universities in the global market of educational services and research programs.” He noted that formed a group of forty leading universities, three of which – Moscow State University, Novosibirsk State University and the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, hit the ranking of the best universities in the world according to the Times.

Senator Tulokhonov, speaking in the Federation Council, said he did not share the optimism of the Minister of Education and Science. “Why are allocated money for the exam on the Bologna process, to ensure that enter the top universities? Who needs it? Thousands of graduates of MSU, MIPT, Novosibirsk State University have gone abroad – he said. – The country is in the export of the brain lost no less than a trillion dollars. I’ve never seen a Harvard graduate, who would come to work in Russia. In the explanatory memorandum of the draft Federal Law Ministry of Education indicated that in 2012 we approved a list of textbooks in 1872, in 2014 nearly 3,000 books. Thus, in violation of the Constitution of the country is not formed general and disunited education, a number of books can not ensure implementation of a unified state policy in the field of education ».

It is also very sharply commented on the reform of Russian Academy of Sciences:” After two years of reforms under the leadership of the Minister of Education and Science was the complete destruction of academic science. ” There are no institutions of RAS, Fano is only responsible for the property, grants – in the Russian Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education is engaged in university science. “Paradoxically, today’s Russia is not the agency responsible for the development of basic research and defense science. Speech by Minister confirms it ».

What it should be the agency? What is needed today for the successful development of science and the country?

«The easiest way – to revive the SCCT. Today, for the defense of science no one answer. Rogozin than the team? Ministry of Defence? So? He can not command the Livanov. The country today needs Gosplan and SCCT – two bodies “, – concluded the senator. He stressed that without science, the country has no future, and recalled the words of the famous physicist Joliot-Curie – “a country that does not develop science, inevitably turns into a colony».

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