What trends in the development of science have emerged in the first quarter of the 21st century? Does the internationalization of science contradict the national interests of individual states? Who should have the decisive say in shaping state scientific policy? What traditions of interaction between science and the state has Ukraine inherited from the Soviet totalitarian regime, and has this inertia of the past been overcome? How are budget funds for research distributed in our country, and which models should be emulated? Does the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine need centers of scientific excellence similar to those in the West? Why can scientists not remain aloof from politics? All this and more is written about by a member of the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine, academic secretary of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the NAS of Ukraine, academician of the NAS of Ukraine Vadym Loktiev in his new article for the journal "Visnyk of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine".
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