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Russian scientists and their foreign colleagues raise the alarm about the new law, that is about to radically transform the almost 300-years old Russian academy of sciences. It should be merged with two more specialized bodies – the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. The academy's real estate holdings and property should be managed by the newly established agency. Russian scientists protest against plans to ruin RAS by symbolic funeral of Russian science in the streets of Moscow in a similar way as Czech scientist did in 2009 in order to warn of the intended radical budget reduction of ASCR. President of RAS Vladimír Fortov is to meet with the president Vladimir Putin July 3, 2013, the same day the new law should be debated in Russia's parliament. The well-known scientists from all over the world draw the attention to the seriousness of situation in many open letters.
Russian scientists plan to protest daily at different places of Moscow.
More information on http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/06/new-law-would-deal-a-blow-to-rus.html.
3 Jul 2013