Herald of RAS, 2002, V 72, N 3.
Science and Society
R. I. Nigmatulin and D. E. Sorokin
A Strategy for Russia: the Problem of Choice
p. 253
E. M. Dianov and A. M. Prokhorov†
Fiber-Optic Communications and Their Role in Modern Society
p. 261
On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium
A. B. Davidson
Twenty-First-Century Consequences of the Breakup of Empires
p. 265
V. L. Kas’yanov
Marine Biological Diversity: Study, Protection, and Value for Humankind
p. 274
Problems of Ecology
K. N. Trubetskoi and Yu. P. Galchenko
Humans and Nature: Contradictions and Ways of Dealing with Them
p. 283
Interview
Immunology: Queen of the Biological Disciplines
p. 288
Review
L. I. Krasnyi
Variable-Scale Divisibility
p. 293
Profiles
S. I. Fokin
Academician Kovalevsky and His Descendants
p. 298
N. A. Grigor’yan
Scientist, Human Being, Teacher
The 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician L.A. Orbeli
p. 305
Yu. B. Monakov and M. A. Saitova
A Knight of the Science of Chemistry
On the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Corresponding Member S.R. Rafikov
p. 311
History of Academic Institutions
M. F. Khartanovich
St. Petersburg: Center of Russian 19th-Century Humanities
p. 315
Times and Mores: Memoirs, Letters, Diaries
Academicians in Defense of Persecuted Colleagues
p. 319
Reflections on a New Book
V. N. Ivanov
Social Scientists Recall
p. 326
Feedback
V. G. Surdin
The Turin Shroud: An Error in Working out an Elementary Problem
p. 331
Official Section
Awards and Prizes
p. 333
At the End of the Issue
Of Those Whom I Remember—With a Smile: From Academician V.L. Yanin’s Collection
p. 339