Vol. 86, No. 6, 2016

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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.

Reports by the Laureates of the 2015 Lomonosov Grand Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dynamic Tunneling

L. V. Keldysh p. 413 abstract

Probing Quantum Systems from the Inside While Producing the World’s Shortest Optical Pulses

Paul Corkum p. 426 abstract

Science and Society

Energy on Renewable Sources: Prospects for the World and for Russia

B. N. Porfiriev and S. A. Roginko p. 433 abstract

Identifying the Subject in the Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation

V. I. Starodubov and N. G. Kurakova p. 441 abstract

Organization of Research

Creating a Database of Russian Dialects and Prospects for Dialectometric Studies

I. I. Isaev, V. D. Solov’ev, F. I. Salimov, A. G. Pilyugin and V. R. Bairasheva p. 448 abstract

Physical and Mathematical Modeling in the Field of High-Velocity Hydrodynamics in the Experimental Base of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Plant

V. A. Kulagin, V. V. Moskvichev, N. A. Makhutov, D. M. Markovich and Yu. I. Shokin p. 454 abstract

From the Researcher’s Notebook

Alkanes and Silanes: Similarities and Differences

V. V. Semenov p. 466 abstract

Determinants of Mortality

S. A. Boitsov and I. V. Samorodskaya p. 473 abstract

Review

To Karamzin from Grateful Descendants

V. A. Tishkov and V. B. Cherkasskii p. 481 abstract

Russia’s Academic Institutes as Mirrored by Webometrics

D. V. Kosyakov, A. E. Gus’kov and E. S. Bykhovtsev p. 490 abstract

Russia–India: Problems and Prospects of Cross Investment

A. G. Volodin p. 500 abstract

Point of View

“A Safety Cushion” or a Strategic Blunder?

B. L. Lavrovskii p. 507 abstract

Unknown Mechanisms of Granitization of Basalts

S. L. Shvartsev p. 513 abstract

Bygone Times

Information and Analysis Centers in the System of State-Level Decision Making

A. S. Krymskaya p. 527 abstract

At the End of the Issue

A Historical Picture of German Resettlement to Kazakhstan (End of the 19th Century–Beginning of the 20th Century)

T. A. Apendiyev, Zh. M. Asylbekova, N. M. Abdukadyrov and E. Zh. Satov p. 534 abstract

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