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Address to International University Community

Academician Viktor A. Sadovnichy
President of the Russian Rectors' Union,
Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences


Dear Colleagues and Friends,

For many centuries universities have been regarded as the highest level in
education, science and general enlightenment of Community and Humanity.
That is the intended mission and the essence of university education.

Today universities of all countries continue to be the medium of knowledge,
wisdom, moral virtues, and humanism. Opinions pronounced on behalf of
international university community are acquiring more and more power and
significance.

The military aggression in South Ossetia this August led to the devastation
of the republic's only university.

Such a humanitarian disaster does not and can not have any moral grounds:
a number of undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and
scientists have been killed; academic and scientific buildings, as well as
the university library, have been ruined. Knowledge and books, the results
of many years of scientific research, items of cultural heritage,
manuscripts and folios are lost forever.

Our Message can not return the departed to life. Nothing can reverse the
tragedy. But we can join our efforts to promote the noble cause - to
restore the University of South Ossetia for future generations.

The Russian Rectors' Union encompassing more than 1000 universities has
deeply felt the pain of the ruined university, and has perceived it as our
common agonizing pain. One of our missions now is to restore the university
within the best time limits we can set.

I sincerely hope that the international university community will share our
worries and will contribute to providing assistance to the University of
South Ossetia.


September 1, 2008: The Day of Knowledge