Boris Paton and Yulia Timoshenko

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuliya Tymoshenko and President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) Borys Paton at a celebration of the 90th anniversary of NASU in Kiev, Monday, December 1, 2008. The government and the parliament should change and improve their attitude to science, and, first and foremost, to the National Academy of Sciences, President Viktor Yuschenko previously said. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN