28.05 Nobel Laureate Andre Geim in Moscow to Back Embattled Minister
MOSCOW, May 28 (RIA Novosti) - Nobel Prize Laureate Andre Geim has come to Moscow to throw his support behind Russias Education and Science Minister Dmitry Livanov in his struggle to reform Russian science.
Livanov has recently taken flak from both from representatives of so-called academic science and a number of politicians who are pressing for the ministers resignation.
Members of Livanovs inner circle link the attacks on him to the ongoing campaign to crack down on fake PhDs and plagiarism in research projects as well as his position on the need to reform the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Andre Geim said he knows Livanov as a good scientist and administrator.
Ive come here because Dmitry [Livanov] has fallen out with everyone: universities, politicians, the Higher Certification Commission [VAK], the Russian Academy of Sciences and the media, he told RIA Novosti ahead of a meeting of the Public Council of the Russian Education and Science Ministry he attended.
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