Go to media bankMOSCOW, Sep 20 The Russian Academy of Sciences has officially announced Gennady Krasnikov's victory at the elections of the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. «In accordance with the results of a secret ballot … Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Krasnikov Gennady Yakovlevich was elected president of the Russian Academy of Sciences,» said the chairman of the counting commission at the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 871 people voted for Krasnikov, 397 for Dmitry Markovich .Earlier, Krasnikov's victory was reported to RIA Novosti by a source familiar with the results of the secret ballot. Two candidates were included in the ballot for the secret declaration of will: Academician-Secretary of the Department of Nanotechnology and Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, General Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Electronics Krasnikov and Director of the Institute of Thermal Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Markovich. A total of 1396 ballots were issued. When the ballot boxes were opened, 1,390 ballots were found, of which 122 turned out to be invalid. To elect the head of the RAS, 699 votes were required. Krasnikov will replace Alexander Sergeev as president of the RAS, who has held this position for one five-year term since September 2017.
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