Volume 77, Number 4, 2007

Contents
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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General Meeting of the RAS

The Main Issue Is the RAS Charter Approval RAS General Meeting Journal p. 317

In the Front Line of Science Opening Address
by RAS President Academician Yu.S. Osipov p. 320

On the Activity of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
and the Fulfillment of the Resolutions of the RAS General Meeting of 2006
Report by Chief Learned Secretary of the RAS Presidium Academician V.V. Kostyuk p. 329

Addresses of the Participants in the RAS General Meeting Academician A.D. Nekipelov and
Chairman of the Ras Trade Union Council V.F. Vdovin p. 338

On Approval of the Report on the Activities of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006
Resolution of the RAS General Meeting p. 342

Full Member of the French Academy of Sciences Maurice Druon Is Awarded
the Diploma of a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences p. 343

On the Charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences Report by Chairman
of the RAS Charter Commission, Academician Yu.A. Osip’yan p. 346

Discussion of the Report by the RAS Charter Commission Academicians Yu.S. Osipov,
Zh.I. Alferov, A.F. Andreev, A.A. Gonchar, Yu.A. Osip’yan,
G.A. Mesyats, Yu.G. Leonov, S.M. Aldoshin,
A.I. Vorob’ev, N.L. Dobretsov, and V.V. Kostyuk p. 349

On the Charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences Resolution of the RAS General Meeting p. 355

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

R. S. Grinberg

Fifteen Years of a Market Economy in Russia p. 356  abstract

Contradictory Realities of the Modern Russian Economy (Paper Discussion) p. 363

E. M. Dianov

Fiber Optics: From Communications to “Nervous” Systems p. 368  abstract

From the Researcher’s Notebook

V. A. Chereshnev, A. G. Gamburtsev, and T. K. Breus

Humans and Their Three Environments p. 373  abstract

Review

A. M. Finkel’shtein

The Basic Reference–Temporal Frame p. 382  abstract

Profiles

A. A. Petrov

A Life Dedicated to Russia (On the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician N.N. Moiseev) p. 391

S. V. Vostokov and I. R. Shafarevich

Harmony in Algebra (On the Centenary of the Birth of Corresponding Member
of the USSR Academy of Sciences D.K. Faddeev ) p. 404

V. V. Kozlov and S. S. Demidov

A Devoted Service to Science (On the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician A.M. Lyapunov ) p. 410

S. N. Khadzhiev

“A Highly Respectable Citizen of the World”
(On the Centenary of the Birth of Academician A.V. Topchiev) p. 417

History of Academic Institutions

N. D. Ozernyuk

Two Anniversaries of the Institute of Developmental Biology p. 423

Science News

V. V. Popovich

Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems p. 429

In the Book World

Yu. S. Pivovarov

A. O. Chubar’yan, Russian Europeanism (Olma-Press, Moscow, 2006), 415 pp. [in Russian] p. 431

B. T. Ryabushkin

V. M. Simchera, The Development of the Russian Economy over 100 Years:
1900–2000: Historical Series, Secular Trends, Institutional Cycles
(Nauka, Moscow, 2006), 585 pp. [in Russian] p. 433

Ya. G. Rokityanskii

Science and Technology in the First Decades of Soviet Power:
The Sociocultural Dimension (1917–1940), Ed. by E. B. Muzrukova
and L. V. Chesnova (Academia, Moscow, 2007), 496 pp. p. 435

Official Section

Awards and Prizes p. 438

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