UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2011. Oleg Chupakhin, a research supervisor from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Ural branch’s Organic Synthesis Institute feels very pessimistic about the future of the Russian science within the walls of Ural Federal University. The academician says the university is simply unable to process all the money directed to science, for one, UFU keeps laying off its scientists on a large scale.

‘So, they set up Ural Federal University and promised enormous funding. However, no one can guarantee that things will work out there. Our Ural State Technical University used to have a scientific research division within its structure, with three thousand people working there. Now, I am informed, there are only two hundred employees left. What is more, the chairs actually dealing in scientific research are sparse. However much money one allocates, science cannot be brought to a particular location in one day,’ Mr. Chupakhin said in his interview to the weekly Expert-Ural magazine.