The Science Council of the Education and Science Ministry and the Commission on Pseudoscience and Research Fraud of the Russian Academy of Sciences issued statements condemning the action.
Mikhail Gelfand is vice director for science of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences and professor at the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the Moscow State University.
A top Crimean official declined a proposed duel over a land dispute with the head of Russia’s nationalist Night Wolves biker group Monday, according to a Russian media report. Turkmenistan unveiled the first monument to President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on Monday a gilded 6-meter-high statue of the leader on horseback perched on a white cliff. Standing in front of a small Moscow church last September, President Vladimir Putin told journalists that he had lit candles inside for people who had been injured or given up their lives defending Novorossia. A court in Russia’s Far East said Monday that it had found signs of “violence and intolerance” in songs by two Russian metal bands and that it has asked the Justice Ministry to include the tracks on a federal list of extremist materials. Kadyrov has scored starring roles in two films: an epic action film featuring a camouflage-clad Kadyrov firing a machine gun into the sky, and a documentary depicting him as a cruel dictator. A high-ranking Chechen official’s call Tuesday to legalize polygamy has prompted soul searching among the Russian population. Russians’ trust in banks has fallen sharply over the past year, as a currency crisis and Western sanctions shook the country’s financial system, a poll by the National Agency of Financial Research (NACFIN) showed. Russia’s second-largest bank VTB made a loss of $370 million in the first quarter and reined in lending as high Central Bank interest rates choked the economy, posing risks for firms dependent on the bank for funds. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov warned on Wednesday the country would face no choice but to rein in public spending over the next few years, highlighting how Russia is still in deep economic trouble even if it has dodged an immediate meltdown. Russia’s Defense Ministry has identified two fighters captured in Ukraine as former servicemen in the Russian military.
