Why Russia has a future

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The Russian government has relied on the development of the science of life. Ministry of Education and Science together with the Higher School economics We determined the long-term forecast of the scientific and technological development of our country until 2030. According to their recommendations, key branches of science and equipment, the development of which will increase the competitiveness of the domestic economy in the world.



Science in Russia is financed by the Russian Science Foundation. To date, the Fund allocates funds for more than two thousand Russian projects in various fields. About a quarter of them are developments in the field of fundamental medicine, biology and agriculture, which belong to the "life sciences", according to the list of priority areas.

Alexander Khlunov, General Director of the Russian Science Foundation, said that a decision had been made to increase funding for science:

Now we support more than 2,5 thousand research projects worth more than 16 billion rubles, and in 2018 we are going to send about 22 billion for grants


The management of the Fund considered that it would be more rational to invest additional funds in "life sciences", namely: molecular diagnostics, biomedical cell technologies, biocomposite medical materials, bioelectrodynamics and radiation medicine, industrial biotechnologies, human genomic certification, promising drug candidates. According to Alexander Khlunov, solving the problems of curing cancer and neurodegenerative diseases can more contribute to the scientific dominance of Russia than the nuclear potential.

I would only like to welcome the initiative of the Russian Science Foundation to increase funding for life sciences, however, I would not want it to become clear that this good intention was realized by cutting other directions, for example, financing elementary particle physics and high energies. It is worth recalling that the following were also indicated as priority areas of development: information and communication technologies, new materials and nanotechnologies, rational nature management, transport and space systems, energy efficiency and energy saving. The science of high technology and the notorious nuclear potential are not much that remains in Russia of the achievements of the Soviet Union, which only gives some reasons to continue to be called a scientific and nuclear power.
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