The Dynasty Foundation has been declared a foreign agent. Dmitry Zimin stopped his financing
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included the Dynasty Foundation in the register of “foreign agents”. Dmitry Zimin stopped financing the fund from personal funds, and the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin is ready to appeal to the President of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Justice with a request to reconsider the decision.
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Russian scientist and entrepreneur Dmitry Zimin, the founder of VimpelCom, in 2001 opened the Dynasty non-profit family fund for social investments to support and develop Russian fundamental science. The mission of the foundation is to seek and support talents, ideas and projects in the field of natural and social sciences. In 2002, the foundation launched the first program and began to issue grants and scholarships for students and young physicists, in 2003 Dynasty began to support post-graduate students and young scientists without a degree, and in 2007 began to prepare future scientists among high school students and physics students.
In February 2015, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation awarded Dmitriy Zimin the “Patronage of Science” award for special contribution to the popularization of science and support of the scientific community, and on May 25 the Ministry of Justice made the Dynasty Foundation to the register of “foreign agents”. In this register include non-profit organizations that receive donations from abroad and are engaged, in the opinion of the authorities, in political issues.
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Dmitry Zimin announced the termination of the fund’s financing: “Of course, I will not spend my personal money under the label of an unknown foreign state. I will stop financing the Dynasty. ” Zimin said that he keeps money abroad and never hid it. In 2015, the foundation planned to spend 435 million rubles on its projects.
After the information appeared that the Ministry of Justice can include the Dynasty Foundation in the register of “foreign agents”, 10 academicians and 18 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences turned to Alexander Konovalov with a request not to include the fund in the registry. According to scientists, the fund’s activity “has nothing to do with upholding the interests of foreign countries and is financed by Zimin’s private funds, even if they are in foreign accounts.”
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Russian scientist and entrepreneur Dmitry Zimin, the founder of VimpelCom, in 2001 opened the Dynasty non-profit family fund for social investments to support and develop Russian fundamental science. The mission of the foundation is to seek and support talents, ideas and projects in the field of natural and social sciences. In 2002, the foundation launched the first program and began to issue grants and scholarships for students and young physicists, in 2003 Dynasty began to support post-graduate students and young scientists without a degree, and in 2007 began to prepare future scientists among high school students and physics students.
In February 2015, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation awarded Dmitriy Zimin the “Patronage of Science” award for special contribution to the popularization of science and support of the scientific community, and on May 25 the Ministry of Justice made the Dynasty Foundation to the register of “foreign agents”. In this register include non-profit organizations that receive donations from abroad and are engaged, in the opinion of the authorities, in political issues.
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Dmitry Zimin announced the termination of the fund’s financing: “Of course, I will not spend my personal money under the label of an unknown foreign state. I will stop financing the Dynasty. ” Zimin said that he keeps money abroad and never hid it. In 2015, the foundation planned to spend 435 million rubles on its projects.
After the information appeared that the Ministry of Justice can include the Dynasty Foundation in the register of “foreign agents”, 10 academicians and 18 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences turned to Alexander Konovalov with a request not to include the fund in the registry. According to scientists, the fund’s activity “has nothing to do with upholding the interests of foreign countries and is financed by Zimin’s private funds, even if they are in foreign accounts.”
He tried to stop the departure from the country of talented young people who are able to move Russian science and education forward. Leading scientists of the middle generation are leaving. Now will accelerate the emigration of youth. Andrei Nechaev, former Minister of Economics of RussiaOn June 8, a meeting of the Board of the Foundation will be held, at which a decision may be taken to close it.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/379935/
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