Contents

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Vol. 88, No. 2, 2018

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ISSN 1019-3316.

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On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

Brain Plasticity and Modern Neurorehabilitation Technologies

M. A. Piradov, L. A. Chernikova and N. A. Suponeva p. 111  abstract

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Science and Society

The Rule of Law As a Factor of Economic Development

A. G. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov, A. V. Mal’ko and S. F. Afanas’ev p. 119  abstract

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From the Researcher’s Notebook

Differences between the Mortality Rates of Moscow and St. Petersburg

V. V. Tret’yakov, V. Yu. Semenov, I. V. Samorodskaya and S. A. Boitsov p. 127  abstract

Some Assessments of the List of Journals in the Russian Science Citation Index

N. A. Mazov, V. N. Gureev and N. E. Kalenov p. 133  abstract

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Review

Mechanochemistry in Siberia

V. V. Boldyrev p. 142  abstract

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Science News

Three Decades of Supernova 1987А Research

O. G. Ryazhskaya, D. K. Nadezhin and N. Yu. Agafonova p. 151  abstract

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