Decisive argument

He saw the Jewish pogroms in Nazi Germany and torch processions of madding crowd.
He knew that such repression very well, his father was suffering from them, but was later exonerated.
He was a brave intelligence officer during World War II, for which he was awarded the Red Star.
He founded and headed the Institute of USA and Canada Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and many call him gray eminence top Soviet leaders from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.
He personally knew the U.S. presidents from Johnson to George H. W. Bush.

Inspiration Gerashchenko

I realize it sounds strange, like, say, a creative crisis of Hercules...
After all, Victor GERASHCHENKO was called Hercules because of a powerful ability to solve economic and financial issues of political scale in conditions of Russian corruption.

But that is the basis of such ability Viktor Vladimirovich, I now understand it completely, - it is his deepest essence.
It is no accident Sergei Kapitsa, knowing that I will be meeting with Viktor Vladimirovich, asked me to convey his greetings and added: "I have great respect for this man."

In complex situations requiring rapid, accurate and peculiar solutions,

Friend of paradoxes

Sergei KAPITSA knows how to support the search. Oh, he knows... If he will support, you will lose your rest for many years.

You, probably, already know that, thanks to the uncertainty, which Kapitsa was add, purely professional idea of a free intellectual turnover grew into the task of creating opportunities for full and independent implementation of any talented person.

But he gave rise to a sense, which was become a thought across five and more years.
And this thought immediately takes place of this site's slogan:
we achieve future, when we achieve our possible maximum.

Boris BABAYAN:
"I think progress will capture all"

Perhaps, we may consider this his words how the most hopeful part of our conversation.
Despite the fact that the ratio of pessimism and optimism - not an issue that is of fundamental importance to science or business, the importance of this issue increases when we talk about the future.

But the conversation with Boris BABAYAN was begun with last.

- I was lucky that I started with Sergei Alekseevich Lebedev.
The main thing is that we borrowed from Sergei Alekseevich, I, at least - is the understanding that all our hopes for the progress, with collective

Vladimir POZNER,
"People of my character
can act together"

Gun forces questions to eminent interlocutors, and subtle perception of human spirit.
Instant response, where trained professionals are forced to ponder at answer, and respect for the opinions of people who just started on the path to find answers to key questions.
Encyclopedic knowledge, coupled with a precise understanding of the realities of life, which would seem must to cool down any man, and boyish enthusiasm at the opportunity to make a trip across America...