Euroasian Jewish News

Alexander Mashkevich Creates Support Fund for Social Research

The President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) Alexander Mashkevich and representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences have come to a decision to create a Social Research Support Fund.

The Fund shall instigate an international prize to mark the main achievements in social and political sciences. Another task of the fund will be the support of talented young scholars and their promising research projects with grants.

According to Alexander Mashkevich, "Today the questions of education, culture, and economics require responsible research. This research must be encouraged, and a worthy place found for them."

The President of the Congress spoke with the main report at the first meeting of 2011 at the Russian Academy of Social Sciences. The report was dedicated to questions of spiritual and moral unity of the main faiths of Russia. The leader of the Congress conveyed his vision of the history of civilization as a a path from estrangement to dialogue, the determination of contact points, common values and principles. The report summarized the results of the EAJC President's many years of work, which also found an embodiment in a recently-published six-volume publication of his collected scientific works.

"The history of civilizations in general is also the history of intercultural interaction," the EAJC President noted. "But it is important to understand that such an interaction cannot be meaningless. Our interaction or dialogue are not the only important things. The answer to where we are going, why, and for what reason is also important."