The presidents of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Alexander Sergeyev and Marcia McNutt, came to an agreement via video call for the two organizations to cooperate in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Leading experts in our countries are looking into various scenarios regarding economic development, but most forecasts say that we will face a global economic recession and it will take long to find a way out of the situation,” Sergeyev pointed out. “This is why we have determined several areas for joint research on which we will focus. They include the preservation of life and health of our people, as well as economic recovery and development,” TASS quoted him as saying.
