Today the scientific potential of any country, its science cadres, the volume and scale of the research being conducted, the number of science centers, the quality and subject matter of the research, the level of the material and technical equipment of its research laboratories, and other aspects constitute a most important factor in ensuring…

The rise of the present generation of young people in their 20s came during the 1990s, when the vacuum of form was being hastily filled with just about any content. At that time a fashion for churchly themes, traditional and nontraditional religiousness, arose. In the opinion of Deacon Andrei Kuraev, the most prominent phenomenon of religious life…

In the course of the transformation of Russian society that started in the early 1990s, when the adoption of market mechanisms of management led to a drastic stratification of the population's income levels, the position of scientists worsened, inasmuch as an ineffective system of providing incentive to work in science was kept in place. In this…