Volume 71, Number 4, 2001

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.

Extended Meeting of the RAS Presidium

A Year That Lived Up to Expectations
Introductory Speech by Academician Yu. S. Osipov, RAS President p. 329

I. I. Klebanov p. 340

The Work of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2000
Report by Academician N. A. Platé,
Chief Learned Secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences p. 342

Presentations of the Meeting Participants p. 354

On the Report on the Work of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2000 p. 367

Science and Society

N. V. Karlov and N. N. Kudryavtsev

The Noosphere of Education: Distance Access to Knowledge p. 368  abstract

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

Kip. S. Thorne

Black Holes and Gravitational Waves p. 375  abstract

Yu. Ts. Oganesyan

A New Region of Nuclear Stability p. 379  abstract

V. K. Shumnyi

Gene and Chromosomal Engineering in Plants p. 388  abstract

Interview

The Main Principle Is “Do No Harm” p. 395  abstract

From the Researcher’s Notebook

B. V. Chesnokov

The Unified Symmetry of Crystals p. 401  abstract

Point of View

E. M. Galimov

The Power of Foresight p. 405  abstract

Profiles

N. L. Dobretsov

Outstanding Scientist and Patriot
On the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician V.A. Koptyug p. 409

Review

V. P. Zverev

Fundamental Problems of Hydrogeology p. 417  abstract

Bygone Times

I. N. Selezneva

No Room for Intellectuals in Soviet Russia p. 421

Archival Documents on the Deportation of 1922 p. 424

Reflections on a New Book

A. D. Voskresenskii

China—A Close Neighbor. Sovetsko-kitaiskie otnosheniya (Soviet–Chinese Relations),
vol. 4, book 1, 1937–1944; book 2, 1945, Ledovskii, A.M., Mirovitskaya, R.A.,
and Myasnikov, V.S., Comps., Tikhvinskii, S.L., Gen. Ed., Myasnikov, V.S., Ed.,
Moscow: Pamyatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 2000. p. 431

Book Review

S. I. Lunev

A.V. Yurevich and I.V. Tsapenko, Nuzhny li Rossii uchenye?
(Does Russia Need Scientists?) Moscow: URSS, 2001. 200 p. p. 437

A. N. Pokrovskii

V.P. Obolenskii and V.A. Pospelov, Globalizatsiya mirovoi ekonomiki:
problemy i riski rossiiskogo predprinimatel’stva (Globalization of the World Economy:
Problems and Risks of Russian Business), Moscow: Nauka, 2001. 216 p. p. 439

V. D. Kamaev

L.I. Abalkin, Izbrannye proizvedeniya v 4-kh tomakh
(Selected Works in 4 Volumes), Moscow: Ekonomika, 2000 p. 442

Official Section

Awards and Prizes p. 444

Contests for Gold Medals and Prizes Named after Outstanding Scientists
to be Held by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002 p. 448

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