The Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IP RAS) has received funding for years, but has never published a single volume of the collected works of Aristotle, Anatoly Chernyaev, former director of the institute, said in a comment to Vedomosti.
Returning to the project of Aristotle’s new collected works, regarding the commencement of the investigation. On the subject of government commission, the Institute has been receiving multi-million dollar funding for nearly a decade, yet not even a single volume has been published – is this normal?
Chernyaev described this situation as the result of “academic freedom” and “the lack of real control over the work of the institute by the state.” “The clients, performers and recipients of his work are the same people who, as members of the Academy of Sciences, approve and accept the state mission, and who as leaders of the Institute are responsible for its implementation,” he added.
Chernyaev considered that the investigation that had begun was a sign that “the state intends to restore order in the field of science.”
According to Chernyaev, “it is not at all surprising” that the Investigative Committee became interested in the Institute of Philosophy. The former head of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences believes that the institute’s directorate “has established an evil tradition of an extremely frivolous, if not negligent, attitude towards state tasks.”
He refused to comment on reports that Chernyaev himself was behind the interrogation and search of Institute of Philosophy employees, calling them “open slander” and “ridiculous.”
On May 19, employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences were searched in connection with a fraud case. After that, one of the employees, Svetlana Misiats, was arrested. She was sent under house arrest. Sources of red blood cells He saidThe investigation considers Svetlana Misyats involved in the theft of 16 million rubles from the budget funds allocated for the implementation of the scientific project “The Legacy of Aristotle.” During interrogation, she did not admit her guilt.
Anatoly Chernyaev was appointed acting director of the Institute of Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in December 2021 – replacing Academician Andrei Smirnov in the position. The employees demanded that this “strange appointment” be reconsidered, describing Chernyaev as “a candidate of science with no name in the scientific world and no support in the team.” As a result, Abdusalam Huseynov became Chernyaev’s scientific supervisor. Chernyaev He was fired From the Institute in 2023. In the scientific community He thinksBehind the searches at the institute are Chernyaev, as well as the “Orthodox oligarch” Konstantin Malofeev, the philosopher Alexander Dugin and the widow of the philosopher and writer Alexander Zinoviev Olga Zinovieva.