Legal regulation of scientific activity in the Russian Federation: general trends through prism of private problems

The main attention in the article is paid to the Strategy of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, namely: the problems of Russian science outlined in it. Summarizing these problems, the authors conclude that the main problem is the management of the process of obtaining scientific knowledge that is inadequate to modern challenges, the result of which is: lagging of research topics from current requirements, leakage of scientific personnel abroad, low efficiency of organizations involved in scientific research, etc. Based on the existing regulatory framework and research on this issue, the article gives an author’s vision of the necessary changes in the management of science, which are based on a radical review of the legal status of individuals engaged in scientific activities.