Volume 74, Number 1, 2004

Contents
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from MAIK “Nauka / Interperiodica” (Russia).
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ISSN 1019-3316.


On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

A. M. Vasil’ev

The Iraqi War: Its Regional and Global Consequences p. 1  abstract

É. P. Kruglyakov

What Is the Danger of Pseudoscience to Society? p. 6  abstract

The Flourish of Pseudoscience Is the Effect of a Crisis in Public Consciousness
Discussion at the RAS Presidium
p. 14

V. I. Konov, V. V. Osiko, and I. A. Shcherbakov

Fundamental Achievements in Optics and Laser Physics for Medicine p. 25  abstract

Yu. V. Gulyaev

Potentialities of Applying New Medical Equipment Designed by Academic Institutes
at RAS Patient Care Institutions
p. 38

We Are Expecting a Breakthrough in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases
Discussion at the RAS Presidium
p. 42


Problems of Ecology

N. S. Kasimov, Yu. L. Mazurov, and V. S. Tikunov

The Concept of Sustainable Development: Its Perception in Russia p. 48  abstract


Point of View

N. N. Veniaminov

Detection of Undeclared Activities to Enrich Uranium Using the Electromagnetic Method p. 56  abstract


Interview

Fifty Years of Soviet and Russian Molecular Biology:
From Lysenko’s Pogrom to Resurrection and Decline
p. 61  abstract


Essay

D. G. Podvoiskii

National Character as a Factor of Economic Life p. 65  abstract


Profiles

V. A. Martynov

Economic Research Organizer of the Thaw Period
On Academician A.A. Arzumanyan’s Birth Centenary
p. 73

V. A. Lektorskii and V. I. Kuznetsov

A Philosopher and Historian of Science
On the Centenary of the Birth of Academician B.M. Kedrov
p. 79


Bygone Times

V. S. Chesnokov

The Nobel Prize for the Discovery of Radioactivity
On the 100th Anniversary of the Award
p. 84  abstract

E. D. Panov

Science–Labor–Love–Prosperity
On the 95th Anniversary of the Founding of the Ledentsov Society
p. 90

O. A. Kuznetsov

The Secret Voyage of the Vityaz’ p. 95


History of Academic Institutions

A. V. Zabrodin

“The Skill to Provide Digitized Answers”
On the 50th Anniversary of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics,
Russian Academy of Sciences
p. 98


Letters to the Editor

A. A. Sidorov

On Our Wealth, Mineral Resources, and Brains p. 102


Science News

L. B. Buravkova and B. N. Pavlov

Hyperbaric Physiology and Diving Medicine: New Views of Indifferent Gases p. 104

O. V. Skvortsova

The First Scientific Institution in St. Petersburg p. 108

K. A. Shchadilova

The Armenian Academy of Sciences Is Sixty p. 112


In the Book World

I. I. Orlik

Countries of Central and Eastern Europe on the Road to the European Union,
Ed. by N. V. Kulikov (Nauka, Moscow, 2002)
p. 115

I. S. Korolev and V. S. Zagashvili

Pressing Problems of Russia’s Foreign Economic Strategy (Nauka, Moscow, 2003) p. 117

I. S. Dmitriev

The Chronicle of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Nauka, St. Petersburg, 2000),
Vol. 1, 994 pp.; (Nauka, St. Petersburg, 2002), Vol. 2, 621 pp.
p. 120


Official Section

Awards and Prizes p. 123


At the End of the Issue

G. I. Anokhin

Five Centuries Before Columbus p. 125  abstract


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