Volume 72, Number 3, 2002

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.

Science and Society

R. I. Nigmatulin and D. E. Sorokin

A Strategy for Russia: the Problem of Choice p. 253  abstract

E. M. Dianov and A. M. Prokhorov^†

Fiber-Optic Communications and Their Role in Modern Society p. 261  abstract

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

A. B. Davidson

Twenty-First-Century Consequences of the Breakup of Empires p. 265  abstract

V. L. Kas’yanov

Marine Biological Diversity: Study, Protection, and Value for Humankind p. 274  abstract

Problems of Ecology

K. N. Trubetskoi and Yu. P. Galchenko

Humans and Nature: Contradictions and Ways of Dealing with Them p. 283  abstract

Interview

Immunology: Queen of the Biological Disciplines p. 288

Review

L. I. Krasnyi

Variable-Scale Divisibility p. 293  abstract

Profiles

S. I. Fokin

Academician Kovalevsky and His Descendants p. 298

N. A. Grigor’yan

Scientist, Human Being, Teacher
The 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician L.A. Orbeli p. 305

Yu. B. Monakov and M. A. Saitova

A Knight of the Science of Chemistry
On the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Corresponding Member S.R. Rafikov p. 311

History of Academic Institutions

M. F. Khartanovich

St. Petersburg: Center of Russian 19th-Century Humanities p. 315

Times and Mores: Memoirs, Letters, Diaries

Academicians in Defense of Persecuted Colleagues p. 319  abstract

Reflections on a New Book

V. N. Ivanov

Social Scientists Recall p. 326

Feedback

V. G. Surdin

The Turin Shroud: An Error in Working out an Elementary Problem p. 331

Official Section

Awards and Prizes p. 333  abstract

At the End of the Issue

Of Those Whom I Remember—With a Smile: From Academician V.L. Yanin’s Collection p. 339

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