MOSCOW, January 15 Head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov became a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, a decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin about this was published on the official portal of legal information.
«To make a change in the composition of the Security Council of the Russian Federation… by including Krasnikov G as a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation .Ya. — President of the Russian Academy of Sciences,» the decree says.
Krasnikov was elected head of the RAS in September 2022. In the history of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a member of it for the second time — before that, from 1997 to 2013, the then President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Osipov, was a member of the Security Council.
Putin has repeatedly pointed out the importance of obtaining new scientific results by domestic researchers and their implementation in practice to ensure the development of Russia and the technological sovereignty of the country. In a short period of time, Russia will have to create or bring to a new level its own critical technologies in microelectronics, the IT industry, transport, in the development of medicines and new materials, and in other areas that are important for the country, the head of state said.
The Security Council of the Russian Federation is constitutional an advisory body that assists the head of state in the implementation of his powers on issues of ensuring national interests and the security of the individual, society and state, as well as maintaining civil peace and harmony in the country, protecting the sovereignty of the Russian Federation, its independence and state integrity, preventing internal and external threats .