The head of the Institute asked the media not to engage an independent damage assessment Institute

The head of the Institute for scientific information on social Sciences (INION) RAS Yuri Pivovarov addressed the media with a request not to do an independent assessment of the damage caused to the Institute at the end of a strong fire.
Brewers on Tuesday at a press conference said that the scale of the losses in the unique library of the Institute will be assessed a special Advisory Council, created from among the employees of the Institute and authorized the largest scientific libraries of Russia, RIA " Novosti." I urge you all - Let's see (on the work of experts) ", - He said to reporters. For its part, the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov said that unverified information about the causes and consequences of fire in INION, As in any other case occurs when there is reliable information." currently, the information should appear. Let's wait, when will the first data, " asked FORTS correspondents. Remember, the first day of the week FORTS said that the fire of the library of the Institute of scientific information on social Sciences (INION) could eliminate up to 20% of its funds. On Sunday FORTS said that eventually the fire received damage 15% of the Fund of the library. Before the last working day of the week the Prime Minister of Russia Medvedev D. A. ordered Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich to control the work on elimination of the consequences of the fire in the library of the Institute. However, foreign scholars, and among them are from Ukraine, has made an offer his help in restoring damaged by fire to the library. First Director of the Institute for scientific information on social Sciences (INION) RAS Yuri Pivovarov said that the version about the deliberate burning of the library building insolvent. He also stated that burned down the library building is beyond repair. Brewers noted that among the possible reasons for a large fire in the Institute for scientific information on social Sciences (INION) of the RAS in the MOE consider a short circuit and fire thrown from firecrackers. Remember, January 30 in the evening at the fundamental library of the Institute (the Institute) studies in the Russian capital on Nakhimovsky Prospekt was on fire. As stated in the Department, the fire broke out on the 3rd floor, which is not completely burnt out, but a large part of the building turned out to defend from the fire ". The INION is the largest scientific information centre of Russia in the field of social Sciences and Humanities. His library consists of 14, 2 million copies in ancient, modern, Eastern, European and Russian languages, and among them rare editions XVI - early XX centuries. The library has the most complete, and in some cases the only Russian collection of documents of the League of Nations, the UN and UNESCO, parliamentary reports USA (1789), England (1803), Italy (since 1897) and almost the largest Russian collections of books on Slavic languages.


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