:Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

{{Short description|Russian scientific academy}}

{{confused|Russian Academy of Sciences}}

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Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| president = Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov

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| website = {{URL|http://www.raen.info/}}

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The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Russian: Российская академия естественных наук) is a Russian non-governmental organization founded on August 31 1990 in Moscow in the former Soviet Union, following a decree by the Supreme Soviet of Russia.{{cite book |author=RFE/RL. |title=Report on the USSR. |publisher=RFE/RL, Incorporated |issue=v. 3, nos. 1–8 |year=1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBkiAQAAMAAJ |access-date=6 July 2020 |page=19}} {{As of | 2018}}, the Academy operates under the Federal Law of August 23, 1996 No. 127-FZ "On Science and State Scientific-Technical Politics".[http://www.raen.info/ Official website]

{{asof|2020|post=,}} its president is Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov{{cite book |author=Europe Publication |title=The International Who's who 2000 |publisher=Europa Publications |series=International Who's Who Series |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-85743-050-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SC4aAAAAYAAJ |access-date=6 July 2020 |page=878}} and its Vice President and Chief Secretary is Lida Vladimirovna Ivanitskaya.{{Cite web |url=https://raen.info/academy/rukovodstvo |title=Руководство |website=raen.info |access-date=March 5, 2020}} Sergey Kapitsa was the former vice president.https://наука.рф/journal/ochevidnoe-neveroyatnoe-desyat-faktov-o-glavnom-teleuchenom-sergee-kapitse/

The academy is not associated with the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences has been criticised because many members lack scientific credentials and some espouse pseudoscientific theories such as Aušra Augustinavičiūtė's socionics and Anatoly Fomenko's "New Chronology".{{Interlanguage link multi|Yuri Efremov|ru|3=Ефремов, Юрий Николаевич}}, [http://www.ras.ru/FStorage/Download.aspx?id=c1e56582-36f9-4495-8f3b-ff928a07f7ea Опасность лженауки] ("Danger of Pseudoscience")[http://ufn.ru/tribune/trib170506.pdf «Существует большое количество невежд и жуликов». Интервью с академиком РАН В. Л. Гинзбургом][http://vivovoco.astronet.ru/VV/JOURNAL/VRAN/FALSE.HTM Проблемы борьбы с лженаукой (обсуждение в Президиуме РАН)]

Currently, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences includes 24 central sections, more than 100 regional and thematic departments, research centers, united in eight blocks working in the relevant areas. [https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Russian+Academy+of+Natural+Sciences/@55.699235,37.6169113,17z/data=!4m14!1m8!3m7!1s0x46b54b5a883c6977:0x8b2c92062acb1902!2sThe+Russian+Academy+of+Natural+Sciences!8m2!3d55.699232!4d37.6191!9m1!1b1!3m4!1s0x46b54b5a883c6977:0x8b2c92062acb1902!8m2!3d55.699232!4d37.6191?hl=en The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences on Google maps]