Boris Yeltsin’in Başkanlığı Döneminde Bilim, Yükseköğrenim ve Rusya Bilimler Akademisi Şarkiyat Enstitüsü Türkiye Birimi, 1992-2000

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the status of science, research institutions, and researchers in the post-USSR Russian Federation. For the determination, the reports of official institutions, statistics of the Russian Federation Federal State Statistics Service, the statements of the academicians, the publications of the Oriental Institute, publications of the Institute for the Study of Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISS RAS), the documentary prepared for the 200th anniversary of the Oriental Institute, and the theses about Turkey registered in the Russian State Library were used. After determining the status of science, research institutions, and researchers in the USSR during the Yeltsin period, the place and role of the Oriental Institute Turkey unit in the Institute of Oriental Studies, the staff structure, the publications, the quality of the publications, the number of publications were determined. The influence of the RF administration on the research of the Turkey unit of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences was evaluated. Research in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation were not left to the usual flow and researchers did not follow an independent course. The structure and research of the Oriental Institute of Turkey unit were guided. Research institutions and researchers have been compared before and after the Yeltsin period. The number of employees working in research institutions was almost halved. The most important reasons for the decline in the number of employees are the non-payment of salaries, the decrease in salaries compared to the USSR period, the lack of opportunity and value to researchers, the employment of researchers abroad, the privatization, liquidation, bankruptcy of enterprises, and other institutions, etc. reasons can be listed. While the number of researchers decreased, the number of academic staff working in public institutions increased slightly. The rate of increase in the number of students in public institutions is quite high. This article contributes to the state of science, research, and Oriental studies in Moscow during the Yeltsin period. It will also contribute to the joint projects of Turkish studies institutions and research of the two countries in the long run.