The rector of MEPhI linked the success of the University with Orthodoxy
Moscow. 15 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — Rector of National research nuclear University (MEPhI) Mikhail Strikhanov connects the success of this institution with Orthodoxy.
“Faith, professed by the core of the University, helps us in life to achieve success,” he said on Tuesday at the IV Christmas educational readings of the southern Vicariate of Moscow, which opened to the public.
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As said the rector, opening a house Church in 2009 and the Department of theology in 2012 (it is headed by the Chairman of the Synodal Department for external Church relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk) MEPI has achieved great success both in Russia and abroad.
The University is now ranked in the top 100 best universities, occupying the 36th place in the natural Sciences according to the international rating. Differently rated, we at the 75th place in the world among five thousand universities. Many were surprised when we started, and asked: “How physics is combined with faith?” Very well, because our strong belief is that the younger generation from the very beginning should manifest values that are unshakable.Michael Strahanovich MIFI
Opening to the public of the Department of theology has caused in the scientific community and the media a heated debate. Thus, in particular, about a hundred academicians and corresponding members of the RAS Ministry of education and science wrote in the letter with the requirement to close the Department on the grounds that Russia is a secular state.