Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Volume 67, Number 1, 1997.

 Science and Society


 V. N. Kudryavtsev
The New Science Act and the Status of the Russian Academy of Sciences 
p. 1
 
 A. S. Panarin
Chasing an Elusive Reality: The Post-Classical Methods of Political Science
p. 4  

 F. E. Sheregi
A Crisis in Higher Education 
p. 12  


 Organization of Research Activity


 S. V. Egerev
Russian Scientists Abroad 
p. 18  

 V. P. Lozbyakov
The Administrative Practice of the Militia as a Research Problem
p. 23
 

Problems of Ecology


 G. G. Matishov
Expeditionary Studies in the Arctic Ocean
p. 26  


Review


 G. S. Golitsyn
The Earth's Climate over the Last Four Billion Years 
p. 31  

 A. L. Yanshin
Air Composition: How Is It Changing? 
p. 36  


From a Researcher's Notebook

 V. S. Urusov
Computers Help to Predict the Structure and Properties of Crystals 
p. 40
 

 Interview


 Ya.G. Rokityanskii
To Understand a Scientist Means Allocating Funds for a Research Project
p. 44  


 Profiles


 A.D. Buchachenko
He Would Have Been Sixty...
p. 50  


 An Essay


 V. Ya. Frenkel' and B. B. D'yakov
Foresight and Reality 
p. 52  


Book Review


 V. V. Krylov
Ya.G. Rokityanskii and R. Mueller.
Krasny dissident. Akademik Ryazanov—opponent Lenina, zhertva Stalina
(Red Dissident. Academician Ryazanov—Lenin's Opponent and Stalin's Victim),
A Biography and Documents, Moscow: Academia, 1996 
p. 56  


 Official Section


Decisions of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Presidium 
p. 60
 
AWARDS AND PRIZES 
p. 61