“We are ready to pay for research in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and many other areas! We do not waste state funds on pseudo-researchers enrolled in political projects,” Prime Minister Ion Chicu said after employees of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova announced protests, IPN reports.
According to Premier Chicu, the budget for science and research in 2020 is by 17% higher than in 2019 and totals 545 million lei. “What did you deliver to society instead of hundreds of millions of lei the past few years, Misters?” he asked.
The employees of the Institute of History decided to initiate a series of protests by which to sensitize public opinion and the authorities of the Republic of Moldova to the situation created inside the staff. According to them, the research and innovation sectors in Moldova are in a profound crisis caused by the dissolution of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova as a center for the organization and coordination of research in the country. The employees also said that the government is trying to destroy in stages the Institute of History, applying the mechanisms of fixed contests and financial penury. This is a condemnable attempt to bring the historical and philosophical learning process under the control of the current political factor.
