How to be in the current situation?

Abstract

Russian science has faced a number of new challenges that dictate the need to mobilize human and material resources. The article proposes to evaluate the resources that Russian science has at the present time. It is noted that science, as one of the institutions inscribed in the social order, followed and continues to follow the rules of the game that are set by external subjects. After a long period of funding, reforms traumatizing the scientific community, the possibilities of Russian science for independent development are limited. One of its main problems today lies in the field of reproduction, replenishment with qualified personnel capable of independent scientific activity. It is not easy to achieve this, because in the previous period, Russian scientists were oriented towards integration into world science in the role of a catching-up subject, repeating the patterns of Western scientific institutions. In order to change the situation, it is important to radically change the attitude towards scientists, significantly increase funding for science, show respect for the traditions that Russian science has accumulated and were in the past the foundation of its global achievements.