Russian Science as an Object of Unfair Global Competition

The article is devoted to the analysis of the manifestations and consequences for Russian science of the phenomenon of monopolization by a narrow group of foreign economic entities (the collective dominant in the information technology sphere) of the global R&D markets, scientific publications and services that provide them, including services for access to aggregated scientific data and analytics, etc.).
It is concluded that the key tool for monopolizing the relevant markets is lobbying the interests of the collective dominant in international organizations and state authorities representing the interests of competitors, establishing direct and indirect control over market entry barriers for all other participants.
According to the authors, the bad faith of global competition on the part of foreign participants in collective dominance in relation to Russian scientific and educational organizations in the respective markets is manifested primarily in the absolute and relative “leakage” of the most qualified scientists and specialists from the country, as well as the results of scientific activity. This was facilitated by the introduction into the regulatory practice of the country of the so-called “international” standards of scientific publication activity, reporting, performance of scientific qualification works, global competition of economic entities in the scientific and educational sphere.
The authors propose and justify a number of measures aimed at overcoming the dependence of Russian science and higher education on the negative impact of global unfair competition in the relevant field. The basis of these measures should be the development of a new national (mainly expert) system for assessing the effectiveness of scientific activities, the effectiveness of scientific and educational organizations, which would be focused on ensuring sustainable development, security and sovereignty of the country, strengthening the spiritual and moral health of the nation and increasing the well-being of its citizens

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