Putin gave the head of a ghastly wounds for the officials who became academicians. Academicians and Stalin

In defiance of the Kremlin's recommendation, several prominent Russian officials have become academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). These included the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Deputy Ministers of Education and Science. Life figured out which other high-ranking representatives of the Russian bureaucracy violated the president's direct order, and also tried to find out their motives and reaction to a possible resignation.

Russian officials work day and night not only for the good of the country, but also for the good of national science. At least, this is evidenced by the lists of academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. These included deputy ministers of the leading Russian departments, as well as other prominent civil servants.

This zeal of officials for science has caused bewilderment among President Vladimir Putin. Today, at a meeting of the relevant Presidential Council, he, in particular, said that he would give civil servants and officials who have become academicians an opportunity to engage in science.

I will have to give them the opportunity to do science. Because, apparently, their scientific activity is more important than the performance of some routine administrative duties in the authorities and administration, - the head of state explained his well-founded position.

Life analyzed the lists of current academicians and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences and found at least five officials who in the near future will have to think about switching from responsible work in relevant ministries and departments to the RAS.

It is worth noting that during today's meeting, RAS President Vladimir Fortov confirmed that several civil servants were elected to the Academy, namely "five-seven".

Five or seven people, like that. It depends on how you count, - said Fortov, pointing out that their further work in government posts depends on the decision of the head of state. - I believe that this is a question of the president and how satisfied he is with his employees and whether there are any claims to them.

One of the newly minted academicians, for example, is Deputy Minister of Education and Science Alexei Lopatin. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he was elected again just recently - together with everyone, at the end of October 2016.

Lopatin's colleague in the ministry, Lyudmila Ogorodova, is also on the lists of corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Only her term of office began in 2014.

Since 2016, he has been elected to the corresponding member and full namesake of the Deputy Head of the Budget Investment Implementation Division of the Department for Management of the Network of Subordinate Organizations of the Ministry of Education and Science Alexei Kuznetsov.

In turn, the director of the Information Policy Department of the ministry, Andrei Emelyanov, did not answer Life's question about whether Olga Vasilyeva's deputies would leave the RAS or, conversely, leave their posts in the ministry.

The press service of the ministry asked Life correspondents to send a written request, to which there was no response either.

In addition, since 2016, the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or, as he is also called, the “chief investigator” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Savenkov, has become a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In principle, if Savenkov is transferred to work at the academy, then he will not lose much. He is not a poor official, the family of the head of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs last year declared 77.5 million rubles of income. True, the main part of these funds, according to the declaration, was contributed to the family budget by the spouse of a high-ranking police officer.

The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked to send an official request.

In 2016, Vasily Khristoforov, Head of the Registration and Archival Funds Department of the FSB of Russia, was also elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Life could not get a comment from Khristoforov: at the time of writing the material, he did not answer calls and SMS messages.

It is interesting that the list of corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences also includes the Minister of Healthcare Veronika Skvortsova. However, she was elected long before she entered the civil service - she received a scientific status back in 2004. According to Oleg Salagai, Director of the Department of Public Health and Communications of the Ministry of Health of Russia, the Minister of Health did not take part in the elections to academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016.

The ban on being elected to academicians and corresponding members of the RAS affects all officials, including governors.

This applies to everyone, - Putin explained to reporters, answering the relevant question.

Life discovered that there are indeed governors among academicians and corresponding members: the head of the Voronezh region, Alexei Gordeev, and the head of the Belgorod region, Yevgeny Savchenko.

In fact, this is not the first “yellow card” on the part of the head of state for the Russian Academy of Sciences, which chose to violate Vladimir Putin's policy, but not to quarrel with the influential bureaucratic class, giving them the opportunity to be elected to the Academy despite all the instructions of the president.

At the end of last year, Vladimir Putin already turned to his colleagues and the president of the Academy of Sciences with a request.

I asked my colleagues to refrain from participating in the election of new members to the Academy of Sciences due to the fact that people who hold positions in government bodies, especially at the top levels, are employed or should at least be employed in a serious manner , otherwise they are not able to fulfill their official duties and can only engage in scientific research in their free time, which is practically not left for people who work conscientiously in administrative positions, '' Putin recalls.

Nevertheless, at the meeting, a heated discussion broke out between the Russian leader and the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences, during which President Putin directly asked the head of the Academy of Sciences about the scientific competence of the newly elected officials - academicians and their expediency of being simultaneously in the academic and bureaucratic environment. To the president's reasonable questions, Vladimir Fortov objected only to the fact that all the elected academicians and corresponding members "said that they had received permission."

As a result, the heated discussion ended with the fact that the head of state actually raised the issue of the further stay of the officials elected to the highest scientific body of the country in their current government posts due to "the more important nature of scientific activity than routine administrative work."

Political scientist Oleg Matveychev notes that, unfortunately, the Russian Academy of Sciences has turned into a purely nomenclature institution, where people are not engaged in scientific activities, but sit and talk to each other about what kind of respected people they are.

People enter the Academy of Sciences not for their scientific merits, but for old merits, for length of service, or officials who are given the title of academician as a sign of respect and honor. We can say that this entails a drain on staff to the west. Young scientists, instead of moving up the career ladder in Russia using the base of the Russian Academy of Sciences, are forced to leave for the West. They have to do this because they run into higher-ranking academicians, not seeing further prospects, '' he says, noting that the RAS should be engaged in scientific work, research, move Russian science forward, and not be a gathering of honorary chairmen.

It is important for the President to solve the problem in a systemic way: to force the RAS to release its ballast. You can start this by getting rid of officials in the RAS. Officials who work 16 hours a day definitely do not have the opportunity to engage in scientific activities. I am sure that these officials will resign from their duties as academicians and prefer the civil service, ”the political scientist explained.

President Vladimir Putin has publicly threatened to fire officials who have become academics in defiance of his insistent recommendation last year.

Then Putin asked them to "refrain" from participating in the elections of academicians and correspondent members - because officials "can only engage in scientific research in their free time, which is practically not left for people who work conscientiously in administrative positions."

Not everyone abstained: in the last elections to the RAS, a member of the Federation Council from Buryatia, Arnold Tulokhonov and Deputy Minister of Education and Science Alexei Lopatin, became full academicians, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alexander Savenkov, Minister of Health of the Perm Territory Olga Kovtun became full academicians (as it became known, August resigned), Deputy Head of Roshydromet Alexander Makosko, Head of the Department of Registration and Archival Funds of the FSB Vasily Khristoforov, Director of the Department of Science, Innovative Development and Management of Biomedical Health Risks of the Ministry of Health Sergei Rumyantsev, Head of the Main Medical Directorate of the Presidential Administration Konstantin Kotenko, Head of the Main of the Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun and Deputy Director of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Igor Sheremet.

Among the candidates were even more senior persons: for example, the Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova was on the list of candidates for academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Medical Sciences. The lists of potential academicians included Senator Andrei Klishas, \u200b\u200bGovernor of the Tambov Region Alexander Nikitin, Head of the Federal Archival Agency Andrei Artizov, Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region and Minister of Agriculture Vyacheslav Vasilenko, Minister of Health and Resorts of Karachay-Cherkessia Khusein Kurdanov, and others. At the same time, Skvortsova and Nikitin their candidacies, according to the RAS, were withdrawn even before the elections.

It is, of course, impossible to say that the newly elected academicians and Correspondents received their titles without being scientists: for example, Arnold Tulokhonov is a Doctor of Geographical Sciences, a professor, who headed the Baikal Institute of Nature Management for 12 years; Vasily Khristoforov - Doctor of Law, who worked for many years at the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Alexander Makosko - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, renowned specialist in atmospheric physics, etc. But just the same

it is a fact that it is impossible to really combine public office and scientific work. Moreover, the work of an academician, whose main function in terms of status is to enrich science with new knowledge.

In this sense, the president is right when he says that "I will have to give them the opportunity to engage in science, because, apparently, their scientific activity is much more important than the performance of some routine administrative duties in government and administration." And it is quite possible that the listed characters will have to leave their posts on academic leave. Or voluntarily give up academic robes.

The tradition of "gradualization of the bosses", of course, did not appear in Putin's or Yeltsin's times - it is quite Soviet, when an academic degree was considered an important addition to an administrative position.

Often this degree was organized for the acting chief through the efforts of subordinates who wrote the appropriate work to the “boss”. If the bosses were very high, they could, like the first secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU Grigory Romanov, award a doctoral degree while defending his candidate, being delighted with the depth of his scientific achievements.

However, it rarely came to academicians: it seems that in the Soviet era, after all, more often an academician was appointed a minister than a minister was made an academician.

In the first post-Soviet times, the process slowed down, and then began with renewed vigor: a minister, governor or a State Duma deputy without an academic degree became a rarity. First - candidate, then - doctoral.

At the same time, being a scientist is not necessary: \u200b\u200bfew people seriously consider Doctor of Philosophy Zhirinovsky or Doctor of Historical Sciences Medinsky as scientists. Yes, and the candidate of economic sciences Putin is difficult to attribute to them. And such cases as with Grigory Yavlinsky, who defended his doctoral dissertation, having already resigned as a State Duma deputy, are quite rare.

Gradually, there have become, apparently, so many doctors of sciences that you will not surprise anyone with this. And I had to go further - to academicians. And in the real ones - the Russian Academy of Sciences (the titles of the proliferating pseudo-academies are no longer in honor).

You can understand the officials: an academician or a member correspondent is not only a beautiful inscription on a business card, it is also a solid payment. An academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences is entitled to 100 thousand rubles a month, a member-correspondent - 50 thousand. At the same time, they can be dismissed from ministers or deputy ministers at any time, but not from academicians or correspondent members: titles are life-long, as well as payments. And if something happens, they will be very useful in life.

In October, 25 officials ran for membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences, 14 of them were elected, Academician Mikhail Paltsev, chief scientific secretary of the RAS Presidium, told TASS. Senator, member of the Federation Council committee on international affairs Arnold Tulokhonov (became an academician) and the head of the main military medical department of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fisun (became a corresponding member) entered the Academy. Fisun Paltsev was called a famous military scientist.

On November 23, at the Council on Science and Education, President Vladimir Putin expressed dissatisfaction with why several officials became academicians this year, although he gave them the opposite recommendation. He promised to provide such officials "with the opportunity to engage in science, because, apparently, their scientific activity is much more important than the performance of some routine administrative duties in government and administration." As Vedomosti found out, the highest-ranking official who could become an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the department of medical sciences was Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova in the autumn elections. Her last name was on the lists of candidates published in the RAS newspaper Poisk in June, but then she changed her mind and withdrew her candidacy, a source in the RAS apparatus said. The highest-ranking security official, elected as a member of the law department, was Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs - Head of the Investigation Department Alexander Savenkov.

According to Paltsev, several major designers have graduated from the RAS. “Since they are the heads of state-owned enterprises, they are civil servants by status, but they, naturally, are engaged in science, they are developing weapons. This is military science, ”he explained.

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Alexei Lopatin also became an academician, TASS reports. From 2006 to 2015, he was deputy director for scientific work at the Paleontological Institute. A. A. Borisyak RAS.

In addition to Fisun, members in October became Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Main Medical Directorate of the Presidential Administration Konstantin Kotenko, who was previously the General Director of the Federal Medical Biophysical Center. A.I.Burnazyan, Doctor of Law, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alexander Savenkov, Doctor of Law, Head of the Department of Registration and Archival Funds of the FSB Vasily Khristoforov, Doctor of Medicine, Director of the Department of Science, Innovative Development and Management of Biomedical Health Risks of the Ministry of Health Sergei Rumyantsev. In addition, Igor Sheremet, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, became a corresponding member.

Our blog and the AST Center congratulate Major General Igor Anatolyevich Sheremet on his election as Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the Department of Nanotechnology and Information Technologies.

Major General I.A. Sheremet (c) ria.ru

Igor Anatolyevich's career path can be called exemplary. Major General dedicated his life to serving the Motherland, is considered one of the most prominent military scientists in the field of electronic warfare. He is the author of over 250 scientific papers, incl. 15 monographs and 2 patents. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit and the Medal of the Order of Service to the Fatherland, II degree. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov. Active State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class.

AST Center Director Ruslan Pukhov and Major General Igor Sheremet during the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the CAST

In 2009-2015. Igor Anatolyevich headed the Military Scientific Committee of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation; He was also deputy chief of the General Staff, a member of the Military-Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation and the collegium of the Russian military-industrial complex, chairman of the Military-Industrial Complex Council for ACS, communications, intelligence, electronic warfare and information warfare. And after the resignation of I.A. Sheremet continues to engage in scientific activities.

Also, Major General Sheremet is a great friend of the AST Center. He helped and supported the CAST in many endeavors. It is difficult to overestimate the help of Igor Anatolyevich in writing the book “Electronic warfare. From experiments of the past to the decisive front of the future ”.

The bmpd blog and the staff of the AST Center join in congratulations on his election as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and wish Igor Anatolyevich further success in his scientific work for the good of the country.

Despite the Kremlin's recommendation, several prominent Russian officials have become academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). These included the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Deputy Ministers of Education and Science. Life figured out which other high-ranking representatives of the Russian bureaucracy violated the president's direct instructions, and also tried to find out their motives and reaction to a possible resignation.

It is worth noting that during today's meeting, RAS President Vladimir Fortov confirmed that several civil servants had been elected to the Academy, namely "five-seven".

Lopatin's colleague in the ministry, Lyudmila Ogorodova, is also on the list of corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Only her term of office began in 2014.

The press service of the ministry asked Life correspondents to send a written request, to which there was no response either.

In addition, since 2016, the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or, as he is also called, the "chief investigator" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Savenkov, has become a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked to send an official request.

In 2016, Vasily Khristoforov, Head of the Registration and Archival Funds Department of the FSB of Russia, was also elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Life could not get a comment from Khristoforov: at the time of writing the material, he did not answer calls and SMS messages.

It is interesting that the list of corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences also includes the Minister of Healthcare Veronika Skvortsova. However, she was elected long before she entered the civil service - she received scientific status back in 2004. According to Oleg Salagai, Director of the Department of Public Health and Communications of the Ministry of Health of Russia, the Minister of Health did not take part in the elections to academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016.

The ban on being elected to academicians and corresponding members of the RAS affects all officials, including governors.

This applies to everyone, - Putin explained to reporters, answering the relevant question.

Life discovered that there are indeed governors among academicians and corresponding members: the head of the Voronezh region, Alexei Gordeev, and the head of the Belgorod region, Yevgeny Savchenko.

In fact, this is not the first "yellow card" on the part of the head of state for the Russian Academy of Sciences, which chose to violate the instructions of Vladimir Putin, but not to quarrel with the influential bureaucratic class, giving them, despite all the instructions of the president, the opportunity to be elected to the Academy.

At the end of last year, Vladimir Putin already turned to his colleagues and the president of the Academy of Sciences with a request.

I turned to my colleagues with a request to refrain from participating in the election of new members to the Academy of Sciences due to the fact that people who hold positions in government bodies, especially at the upper levels, are employed or should at least be employed in a serious manner , otherwise they are not able to fulfill their official duties and can only engage in scientific research in their free time, which is practically not left for people who work conscientiously in administrative positions, '' Putin recalls.

Nevertheless, at the meeting, a heated discussion broke out between the Russian leader and the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences, during which President Putin directly asked the head of the Academy of Sciences about the scientific competence of the newly elected academician officials and their expediency of being simultaneously in the academic and bureaucratic environment. To the president's reasonable questions, Vladimir Fortov objected only to the fact that all the elected academicians and corresponding members "said that they had received permission."

People enter the Academy of Sciences not for their scientific merits, but for their old merits, for length of service, or officials who are given the title of academician as a sign of respect and honor. We can say that this entails a drain on personnel to the West. Young scientists, instead of moving up the career ladder in Russia using the base of the Russian Academy of Sciences, are forced to leave for the West. They have to do this because they run into higher-ranking academicians, not seeing further prospects, '' he says, noting that the RAS should be engaged in scientific work, research, move Russian science forward, and not be a gathering of honorary chairmen.

It is important for the President to solve the problem in a systemic way: to force the RAS to release its ballast. You can start this by getting rid of the officials in the RAS. Officials who work 16 hours a day definitely do not have the opportunity to engage in scientific activities. I am sure that these officials will resign from their duties as academicians and prefer the civil service, ”the political scientist explained.