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MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he intends to make personnel decisions regarding senior officials from the Administration of the head of state of several ministries and the FSB, which became the academicians and member-correspondent of the Russian Academy of Sciences despite his instruction not to combine doing science and the civil service.
At the meeting of the Council on science and education Putin has demanded from the head of the RAS Vladimir Fortov to answer why the number of academicians were elected officials in spite of his recommendation not to do so. In response, the President of the Academy assured that the applicants met all requirements.