“This morning, an outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2013-2017, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Evgenievich Fortov died.
This is an irreparable loss for Russia, for Russian and world science, ”Ivanov said.
According to the press service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Fortov was sick with coronavirus.
On November 24, it became known that Erik Galimov, Honored Professor of Moscow State University and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, had died.