One of the most important factors that determine the state of science potential and, in the long run, the successful results of scientific and technical activity, is its financing. All developed countries conduct an incentive policy to encourage their national science, including systematic support from state budgets for scientific research and…

What is meant by the scientific intelligentsia in this article is a group of people who possess empirically discernible features such as having a higher education and a postgraduate education and are employed in the state sector of science in this country. It is obvious that in present-day Russia there is a special social and professional group…

It has been reported that science has gone through an institutional crisis and that science in Russia as a whole has been deinstitutionalized. This article is an attempt to make use of the example of scientific organizations in St. Petersburg in order to trace the changes that have been going on in science in the past few years as a result of…