Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2001, V 71, N 4.

 
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. PlatĘ, 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 

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium 

Kip. S. Thorne 
Black Holes and Gravitational Waves 
p. 375 

Yu. Ts. Oganesyan 
A New Region of Nuclear Stability 
p. 379 

V. K. Shumnyi 
Gene and Chromosomal Engineering in Plants 
p. 388 

Interview


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


From the Researcher’s Notebook
 

B. V. Chesnokov 
The Unified Symmetry of Crystals 
p. 401 


Point of View 


E. M. Galimov 
The Power of Foresight 
p. 405 


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 

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