Июнь 2001 г.

Российская наука и мир (по материалам зарубежной электронной прессы)

CONTENTS / ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ


• Russian science in disarray
• Science revival movement holds founding congress in Moscow
• Soros may pull out of Russia because of clampdown on academics
• Russia commercial secrets and copyright to be protected
• Scientists Shrug Off Academy Crackdown
• Moscow University Days to be held in Beijing
• Moscow State University Celebration Held in Beijing University
• 300 companies to take part in High Technology Week in St Pete
• APEC Science and Technology Industrial Parks Network Meeting Held
• Russo-Korean Biotechnology Congress opens in South Korea
• Conference on strategic community through education in Moscow
• International thermonuclear experimental reactor designed
• Caspian countries should save sturgeons together --opinion
• Sino-Russian Technology Cooperation Center Established

BEIJING, Jun 5, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Russia's biggest institute of higher learning, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Tuesday opened a celebration of its 250th anniversary at China's elite Beijing University.
Dr. Victor Sadovnichy, rector of the Russian university, said at the opening ceremony that this is the first time for the university to celebrate its anniversary outside Russia.
During the four-day celebration, the Moscow delegation headed by the rector will hold a photo exhibition of the achievements of Lomonosov Moscow State University in the library of Beijing University.
Dr. Sadovnichy, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is scheduled to deliver a speech on "Human Beings and the Cosmos: Problems of Life and Work in the Earth's Orbit".
Meanwhile, other delegation members, who are directors of university departments, will also speak on their fields of study, including mathematics, physics, psychology, journalism, economics and history for students at Beijing University.
Moscow State University established an "information center" at Beijing University last year, to promote exchanges and cooperation between the two universities.
Beijing University is planning to set up a similar center at its Moscow counterpart later this year.

300 компаний и более 6000 известных ученых и специалистов примут участие в Неделе высоких технологий в Санкт Петербурге

ST. PETERSBURG, Jun 11, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- Three hundred companies and more than 6,000 prominent scientists and specialists from Russia, other CIS states and Eastern Europe, as well as from Germany, the United States, Finland and South Korea have confirmed their participation in the Week of High Technology to begin in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
The event will be held under the aegis of the Russian Ministry of Science and Technology as part of the 5th St. Petersburg Economic Forum to be held in the city this week.
The Week of High Technology is "Russia's only comprehensive project called upon to demonstrate the success of Russian science", the Organising Committee told Itar-Tass on Monday.
It will promote mechanisms of innovation policy, modern information technologies and integration in innovation spheres in the CIS states. The Week will begin with the exhibition "High Technologies. Innovation. Investment" on Tuesday. It will feature unique Russian and foreign technologies and the latest developments in all fields of science and technology. On the same day, the forum Organising Committee and its working group, and the heads of round-tables will hold their meetings.
The leitmotif will be economic interaction among CIS states. This issue is expected to be addressed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Ukrainian Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh, Federation Council chairman Yegor Stroyev and Duma speaker Gennady Seleznyov. The forum will also involve Russian Minister of Communications and Informatisation Leonid Reiman, Development and Trade Minister German Gref, First Vice-Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, Labour Minister Alexander Pochinok, World Bank President James Wolfensohn, representatives from the governments and parliaments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Latvia, Macedonia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Indonesia and Norway.
Master classes and informal discussions will be held as part of the forum. Discussions will focus on such issues as the removal of customs Nationalities Minister Ramazan Abdulatipov border barriers, the development of unified approaches towards the movement of labour, capital, goods and services in the free interstate space.

Пятая встреча руководителей сети научных и технических парков APEC (Азиатско-Тихоокеанское Экономическое Сотрудничество) прошло в городе Яньтай на восточном побережье Китая

YANTAI, Jun 12, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Fifth Meeting of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Science and Technology Industrial Parks Network was held in the last two days in this coastal city of Eastern China's Shandong Province Monday, as part of the current Second APEC Investment Mart.
The meeting, which was attended by science and technology park administrators and experts from APEC members including China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Vietnam and Russia, is aimed to promote the exchange and cooperation among APEC members in the development of hi-tech industry and high-tech parks in the Information Age, said Jin Ju, deputy director of the International Cooperation Department under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
At the meeting, the participants shared their experience in building up Internet and intranet networks in the science parks, as well as administrating and developing hi-tech parks, especially in the fields of policy, talents, infrastructure, and environment.
They were of the same opinion that technological innovation has infused these hi-tech parks with new vitality and APEC members should further cooperate in developing these hi-tech parks.
The First Meeting of APEC Science and Technology Industrial Parks Network was held in Beijing in 1997.
China now has 53 state-level science and technology industrial parks, 10 of which have been elected to open to the APEC members. High-tech parks, with 20,794 enterprises by the end of 2000 so far, have contributed to the key industrial bases for some rising industries such as electronis and information, new materials, new medicine and biological engineering in the country.
About 50 percent to 80 percent of program-controlled switchboards, optic fiber and cable, computers and computer peripheral products, software and network products are produced in these parks.

Группа ученых Тихоокеанского Института биоорганической химии из Владивостока прибыла в корейский город Tonghae для участия в работе биотехнологического конгресса. Российскую делегацию возглавляет вице-президент Российской Академии Наук, Председатель Дальневосточного отделения Академии Г.Б. Еляков. Корейская сторона представлена на форуме профессорами из нескольких местных университетов, а также специалистами предприятий, специализирующихся в биотехнологии

TONGHAE (Republic of Korea), Jun 26, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- The second Russo-Korean Biotechnology Forum is being held in South Korea. It opened on Tuesday at Tonghae, a young port city on the eastern coast of the country. Meetings of scientists from the two countries, Counsellor of the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Korea Yevgeny Smirnov told Itar-Tass, are to be held on board the Russian research ship "Akademic Oparin", which is anchored here.
A group of scientists from the Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Vladivostok came to Tonghae to take part in the work of the congress. The Russian delegation is led by Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Academy's Far Eastern Branch Yelyakov. The Korean side is represented at the forum by professors from several local universities and also experts from venture enterprises specialising in biotechnologies. Scientists and businessmen are expected to exchange scientific information, to launch joint research projects, and to promote scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries in the effort to master and introduce new biotechnologies in production.

Конференция "Построение Стратегического Сообщества с помощью образования и науки" открывается в Москве. Это четвертый форум, который организован объединением военных академий и институтов, занятых изучением проблем безопасности "Партнерство во имя мира" и Московским Государственным университетом

MOSCOW, Jun 24, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- The conference "Building of Strategic Community Through Education and Science" is opening in Moscow on Monday. The forum, which is organized by the Consortium of the "Partnership for Peace" military academies and institutes engaged in studying issues of security and the Moscow State University, is being held for the fourth time now.
Special attention at the conference will be paid to issues of national security arising from the technological revlotion. According to the forum's organizers, it is especially pleasant that the Russian state made the Moscow State Universaty a leading organization in studying humanitarian aspects of these problems. Participants in the forum also plan to sum up some results of the activity of the consortium's 20 research groups.
Scientists, diplomats, servicemen and representatives of non-state organizations of the Euro-Atlantic region will take part in the conferenc. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov and Estonian Defence Minister Yri Luika are expected to deliver reports at the conference.
Russia, according to the organizers, considers the consortium's activity and the opening conference as an effective means for strengthening its international cooperation with foreign partners both in organization and holding of scientific researches, as well as in training of cadres in the field of national and international security.
The forum will last until June 27.

Международный симпозиум, посвященный завершению проектных работ международного термоядерного экспериментального реактора открылся в Москве. Форум продлится два дня

MOSCOW Jun 07, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- An international symposium devoted to the successful completion of designing an international thermonuclear experimental reactor opens in Moscow on Thursday.
The symposium, which will last for two days, is mainly to inform Russian and international public of the results of the research and develepment which have laid foundation for the creation of an international thermonuclear experimental reactor and preparation for its construction.
The participants in the project, in addition to Russia, are Japan and the European Union (EU). Besides that, Canada participates in the project through the EU and Kazakhstan through Russia. The United States withdrew for the project but closely follows its progress.
According to experts, Russia participates in an equal footing with other partners in and its technological potential enables it to manufacture from 60 to 80 percent of technological equipment of the reactor according to world standards.
The symposium is conducted by the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy with the participation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

MOSCOW, Jun 22, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- Caspian sturgeons can be saved only if the countries sharing the sea agree on the rules of the species' joint management, director of the Institute for environment and evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Pavlov told reporters on Friday.
According to the academician, such an accord should cover an unconditional ban on fishery and commercial export of sturgeons.
Russian scientists have developed methods to reproduce artificially belugas by 100 percent and sturgeons - by 70 percent, Pavlov said.
However, "young Caspian countries are engaged in the unrestrained fishing of sturgeons in the sea", causing the populations to dwindle, the scientist said.
The countries sharing access to the Caspian sea include Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran.

В северо-восточной провинции Китая Heilongjiang открылся российско-китайский центр сотрудничества в области науки и техники

HARBIN, Jun 19, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A new Sino-Russian Science and Technology Cooperation Center has been established in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
This is the third state-level Sino-Russian cooperation center, which will help Chinese and foreign investment firms to seek, select and recommend High-Tech projects from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The center will also attract scientists and technicians from the CIS, and help Chinese enterprises cooperate with partners from the CIS.

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