The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences spoke in the State Duma about financing fundamental developments for defense

Scientists discussed the results of the Academy’s work

The main point of the meeting of the Committee on Science and Education of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on Thursday was the report of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov on the work of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Gennady Krasnikov called the creation of the St. Petersburg Branch of the RAS one of the main achievements of the new composition of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In this regard, the complex of historical buildings on Universitetskaya Embankment 5 in the city on the Neva returned to the Academy.

In addition, according to Krasnikov,

The Southern Association of Institutes was created, including 150 industry and academic research institutes.

He called the launch of the sixth subprogram on fundamental and exploratory research for the defense and security of the country another achievement.

“In October, the Government issued a decree on the launch, sources of funding were found…” Krasnikov said.

According to him, a unified scientific space is now being created in the country.

“Not all of our institutes not only did not have scientific and methodological guidance from the Russian Academy of Sciences, but they did not even submit their work to us for examination,” said the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “Now the Kurchatov Institute has come under scientific and methodological guidance. <...> It is important that the Higher School of Economics and RANEPA also send us their works for examination.”

In general, this year the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted more than 40 thousand scientific examinations.