Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000, V 70, N 5.

The Annual General Meeting of the RAS

The Academy in Transition: Concerns, Hopes, Accomplishments.
RAS Annual General Meeting Diary 
p. 417

Major Achievements of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Opening address by RAS President Academician Yu.S. Osipov 
p. 424

Address by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin 
p. 436

RAS Presidium Scientific and Administrative Work 1999.
A Report by RAS Chief Learned Secretary N.A. Platé 
p. 438

From the Researcher's Notebook


M. V. Kondashevskaya, O. B. Goncharov, N. E. Chepurnova,
S. A. Chepurnov, V. S. Kudrin, P. M. Klodt, and L. A. Malikova
Heparin Protects from Emotional Tension 
p. 451  

A. P. Nefedov and V. E. Fortov
Liquid and Crystal Structures in a Highly Nonideal Dusty Plasma 
p. 457


Problems of Ecology


K. Ya. Kondrat'ev
Global Changes at the Turn of the Millennium 
p. 466  

G. V. Givishvili, N. P. Sergeenko, and L. N. Leshchenko
The Climate of the Upper Atmosphere Is Changing 
p. 474  


Profiles


V. A. Chanturiya and T. V. Glembotskaya
The Career Portrait of a Scientist.
The 100th Anniversary of I. N. Plaksin, Corresponding Member, USSR Academy
of Sciences 
p. 479

B. F. Myasoedov
From the Depth of Russia. Academician B.P. Nikol'skii's Birth Centennial 
p. 484


Times and Mores: Memoirs, Letters, Diaries


I. N. Fridlyander
How the AN-10 Was Grounded 
p. 489  

I. N. Fridlyander
Aircraft Light-Weight Aluminum Alloys 
p. 494


History of Academic Institutions


A. Yu. Rozanov and E. N. Kurochkin
The Paleontological Institute Has Turned Seventy 
p. 499


Science Life


A. L. Kovalevskii
An International Meeting of Biogeochemists 
p. 508


Book Review


A. Ya. Dikovskii
A.V. Gladkii, Matematicheskaya logika (Mathematical Logic),
Moscow: Ros. Gosud. Gumanitarnyi Univ., 1998, 479 p. 
p. 509

E. A. Kushnirenko
I.B. Pogozhev, Besedy o podobii protsessov v zhivykh organizmakh
(Dialogues on Similarity in Living Organisms), Moscow: Nauka, 1999, 222 p. 
p. 511

E. V. Balatskii
L.A. Petrushenko, Leibniz. Ego zhizn' i sud'ba (Leibniz: His Life and
Destiny), Moscow: Izdatel'skii Dom Ekonomicheskoi Gazety, 1999 
p. 514

S. I. Mikhal'chenko
Ivanov, A. E., Studenchestvo Rossii kontsa XIX-nachala XX veka:
sotsial'no-istoricheskaya sud'ba (Russian Students in the Late 19th
and the Early 20th Centuries: The Sociohistorical Destiny),
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1999, 414 p. 
p. 518

P. N. Shikhirev
Sotsial'naya psikhologiya ekonomicheskogo povedeniya
(Social Psychology of Economic Behavior), Moscow: Nauka, 1999, 237 p.
p. 522


Official Section


The Russian Academy of Sciences Announces 
p. 524

Russian Academy of Sciences Holds Contests for 2001 Gold Medals
and Prizes Named after Outstanding Scientists 
p. 528

Awards and Prizes 
p. 531