Quo Vadis?

Abstract

Four Russian scientists got together for Radio Liberty's "Contacts" program to share their opinions about the state of Russian science and scientific researchers within the framework of the Academy of Sciences. As we know, it is a topic now being hotly debated in scientific circles. This conversation with Inna Svetlova, the anchorperson and originator of "Contacts," was prompted by a letter from Academician Mikhail Grigor'evich Voronkov, which came to Radio Liberty. Also participating in the September 1995 discussion were Vitalii Iosifovich Gol'danskii, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and general director of the unified Institute of Chemical Physics; Anatolii Vasil'evich Dmitriev, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and president of the Russian Association of Political Sciences; Mikhail Petrovich Kirpichnikov, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and chief of the Department of Science and Education in the Russian Federation Government's apparatus; and Andrei Vladimirovich Kolesnikov, editor of the economics department of Ogonek and a candidate in the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.