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В связи с избранием Фортова прокомментировал для The Moscow News текущую ситуацию. Вот, что из сказанного мной попало в статью:

О Фортове:
“I am trying to be optimistic,” Ivan Kurilla, chair of the Department of International Relations and Area Studies at Volgograd State University, told The Moscow News. “Fortov seems like an active person, and he seems to understand many of the problems. I don’t think there is any other way than for him to try to change the situation.”
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О диссергейте и борьбе с плагиатом:
The fight against plagiarism is coming to a head now, however, because the vulnerability of the science field has reached a tipping point, Kurilla said.

“These are fights for the purity of the academy, of science, for academic integrity,” he told The Moscow News. “Of course it influences the validity of Russian degrees worldwide.”
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О (незавидном) положении науки в системе государственных приоритетов:
“When Putin outlined his priorities for his next presidency during the last election campaign, he put education and science in the least important category,” Kurilla, the Volgograd State University academic, told The Moscow News.

“For him, [they] are not a part of strategic research or development of Russia. Oil and gas is more important than even technological modernization…It’s a very dangerous situation for the country.”

(Последняя цитата оказалась между похожими высказываниями А.Гейма и Ю.Осипова).