russian scientists

[Olga Kagan]

I hope this information is of interest to the profession even though it
doesn't concern seelangers directly.  Olga Kagan

>SCIENTISTS PROTEST STATE DEBTS. Dozens of Russian scientists have
>threatened to join two of their colleagues already on a hunger strike
if the government does not pay its debt to scientific institutions by 10
>October, ITAR-TASS reported on 1 October. Representatives of the trade
>union of the Russian Academy of Sciences said scientists are also
>planning to rally in Moscow and several other cities in mid-October.
>Director of  United Institute of the Physics of the Earth
>Vladimir Strakhov and senior research Igor Naumenko-Bondarenko went on
>a hunger strike on 30 September. According to Deputy Prime Minister
>Vladimir Fortov, the government debt to the scientific sector totals 3
>trillion rubles. He said that Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin had
>agreed that the state would pay 250 billion rubles to the Academy by
the
>end of the year.
>

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