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Belarusian Scientists Indignant At Inadequate Salaries

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Belarusian Scientists Indignant At Inadequate Salaries
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Academic specialists are displeased with an extremely low payment for their labour.

On April 28 at a press-conference in Minsk a head of laboratory, a senior research scientist at the Scientific Research Institute of Physical and Chemical problems of the Belarusian State University Tatsyana Yurkshtovich stated that “wages of research scientists are inadequate.”

As said by her, salary of a research scientists in the Institute is Br1 million 390 thousand, with premiums young scientists do not receive more than a minimal salary (Br 2 million 300 thousand), BelaPAN writes.

“While a young employee works during the obligatory term after the placement chosen by the state, they could be held there, but during the last half a year of this term they are looking for a place to leave,” – Yurkshtovich said.

A leading research worker of the Republican Scientific and Medical Centre “Cell Technologies” of the Institute of Biophysics and Cell Engineering of the Belarus’ Academy of Sciences Valery Verasau added that employees of the Centre who work in the IT sphere, earn almost 10 times less than those who work at the High Technologies Park. “A programmer’s rate in our Centre is about 2 million rubles,” – Verasau said.

At the same time, Deputy Director on Scientific Work of the National Research Center for Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology Mikhail Beleutseu has informed that they manage to maintain the level of salaries at Br6-7 million for research scientists.

“Research scientists of our centre earn at the level of a medical worker, a teacher. In order to earn such a sum, it is necessary for each scientific worker to participate in at least 3-4 projects at the same time, and it means dissipation of forces, spreading oneself too thin,” – Beleutseu said.

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