Scientist biophysicist, member of the Board of the Soros Foundation Valery Soyfer criticised the famous Director Nikita Mikhalkov, who accused the American financier in the action on the “collapse of Russia”. At the request of the”Open Russia”, scientists in Washington found Karina Orlova. She recorded the response of a scientist on charges Mikhalkov spoke with Soifer on the causes of state propaganda of anti-Americanism in Russia. Response Soifer Mikhalkov laid out on”
At the end of July in the program “Besogon” on TV channel “Russia 24” Mikhalkov has accused the Soros Foundation that he is providing funds for the development of science and education in Russia, pursued a simple goal – to destroy the country from within.
As told by Valery Soyfer, he was the man who persuaded Soros to first provide funds to support Russian scientists and he gave in 1992 to $ 100 million for this purpose, and two years later he transferred the same amount to support education in Russia. George Soros never interfered neither in the programming nor in the conduct of Affairs in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries of the former Soviet Union, says Soifer. He noted that Soros funds saved by the Russian science.
In an interview with Karine Orlova Soifer explained, how were distributed the first money of Soros. According to him, every scientist who has published in the past five years, three articles in peer-reviewed journals and has given the Foundation to know about this, has forwarded a check for $ 250. And at that time the salary of a Professor was $ 17 a month, he recalled.
“And many people through these grants survived, and there were tens of thousands. So to accuse Soros that he cashed in, gave something of the CIA and so on, is just absurd. He in this respect absolutely clear, he’s just a noble man, who gave money,” said Sofer.
As the scientist considers that in Russia now developed anti-Americanism, and he’s thriving. Meanwhile, he reminded that in the 1920-ies, when famine in the Volga region, helped American Jews who joined the organization and sent a lot of money in Russia. The American government helped build the Gorky and Moscow automobile factories. He also suggested to remember that the Americans built in the Soviet Union’s largest steel mills and industrial enterprises.
If you go to the great Patriotic war, the figures of US aid in the form of planes, tanks and other vehicles have become “simply outrageous”, said Soifer. “Why does it not remember? Why not reach out and say thanks for the help, we will never forget”?” – asked the scientist. In an interview with Karine Orlova, he expressed the opinion that anti-Americanism is not deep phenomenon, and imposed “media, the hot heads who want to hide their failures by reference to the fact that the Americans are bad, they stole from us”.
Asked in an interview to the question, how sincere are the anti-Americanism Mikhalkov or “money”, the scientist said, “You know, I’d like to remember it very ignoble step when it proposed to close all American “McDonald’s” in Russia and to open his shop.”
“But what makes me like something internally is hurting and frustrating is that I wasn’t a big fan of Mikhalkov, but I have to admit that he is a great actor, great Director. A man who knows how to show the hidden part of man. But as he sank to a level I can not understand. It offends me,” admitted the scientist.
Speaking in an interview with Karine Orlova about Soros, with whom his long-term friendship, Valery Soifer also denied the widespread belief that Soros is “buying brains.” “Of course, I can not believe it, but I’m telling you like it is Soros and his organizations are not conveyed any information of scientific plans and discoveries or from Russia or from other countries,” he said, explaining that the Board decided not to consider applications from private, military, secret organizations. As for the scientific emigration, then, according to Soifer, that from Russia fleeing brains “not Soros and his program to blame.”
Valery Soifer recalled Mikhalkov and critical remarks about a famous writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya. “But she’s known in the West no less Mikhalkov. So we ought to stop and think how obscene it appears, when is the dill with screen of Russian television”, he concluded.
At the end of his video message, the scientist has assured that Soros always had respect for Russia. He advised Nikita Mikhalkov to do everything to the historical memory was preserved.
