Kelvins asks to be removed from the position of president of the Academy of Sciences.
The president of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Ivars Kelvins, has officially appealed to the Senate of the Academy with a request to dismiss him from his post.
Kelvins' decision is linked to a loud scandal caused by his recommendation to grant Latvian citizenship due to special benefits to the Indian citizen Divya Viswanath for her contribution to science, entrepreneurship, innovation, drug development and artificial intelligence.
However, it soon became clear that a number of works listed in Divya's academic biography could not be found in either Google Scholar or other catalogs of scientific literature, and her education and doctorate raised several questions.
As a result, in October, the Seimas couple urgently adopted a law canceling the granting of Latvian citizenship to the Indian scientist Divya Kannan Vishwanath, and the Attorney General's Office began an extensive review of the circumstances of granting citizenship due to special advantages to foreign citizens and the role played by the Latvian Academy in this.