MOSCOW, Apr 25 The West sets the goal of destroying Russian science among its priority tasks, but it will not be able to do this, said Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
«Our opponents are aware that despite their efforts in the 1990s, Russian science was not undermined and bled. Domestic scientists and researchers are still at the forefront of world scientific and technological progress,» he said at a meeting of the scientific council under the Security Council of the Russian Federation. data-title=»Kusturica said that the culture of Russia will never be canceled»>
The West is not satisfied with this, Patrushev noted. «Its ideologists set the destruction of Russian science, its discredit and deprivation of competitive human resources as one of the priority tasks,» he said.
scientific community and emphasize that our common mission is to develop truly Russian science, aimed at strengthening the well-being, stability and security of Russian citizens, society and the state,» the Security Council Secretary added.
This does not mean isolation of the domestic academic community from the world, Patrushev emphasized. «On the contrary, our scientists have made and continue to make a significant contribution to global progress,» he explained. «Attempts by the West, as they say now, to cancel Russian science cannot be crowned with success by definition,» Patrushev concluded.