Meeting with President of Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov

On September 20, 2022, Gennady Krasnikov won the election and became President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A corresponding Executive Order appointing him head of the RAS for a term of five years was signed by the President on September 26, 2022.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Krasnikov, first of all, I would like to congratulate you on your election as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a highly important and the oldest association of our country's leading institutes and scientists.

I would very much like the Academy to play a more important role in economic development, in improving the system of the state's defence capabilities in the current conditions under your guidance. This concerns all aspects, including humanities and, of course, natural sciences.

Apart from holding this high-ranking position as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, you are a leading specialist in the field of microelectronics, a priority area for Russia. All of us know this very well. I hope that your new position will also allow you to develop this sphere to which you have devoted many years of your life and where you have achieved outstanding results.

Mr Krasnikov, what do you see as priority areas for the Academy of Sciences?

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov Krasnikov GennadyPresident of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Thank you very much, Mr President. The new leadership of the Academy of Sciences was elected just over a month ago. Today, I would like to report on our vision and our plans for the future development of the Academy of Sciences. I would like to conduct the following presentation, if I may.

Of course, I would like to say that our goal is to involve the Russian Academy of Sciences in the state decision-making system. We should make sure that the Academy acquires high prestige in the state and society. Most importantly, this should become a reliable foundation for the leadership. This also concerns the organisation of unbiased and objective expert examinations, and it is very important for the Government and the country to have such expert examinations.

How are we going to accomplish this? The third slide shows the scientific and methodological management of institutes. One should say that we did not utilise the potential of the Law on the Russian Academy of Sciences in full measure, and we did not conduct adequate scientific and methodological management. Here is how it happened: every five years, we discussed candidacies of prospective directors of research organisations and analysed state contract reports.

To be continued.