Water as a strategic factor of economic development in Russia V. I. Danilov-Danil’yan Science and Society Pages: 1 - 6
Global energy security: Problems and solutions V. E. FortovA. A. MakarovT. A. Mitrova Science and Society Pages: 7 - 14
Challenges of nanotechnological development in Russia and abroad Yu. D. Tret’yakov Science and Society Pages: 15 - 21
The Flora of Russia project (Russian federation) R. V. Kamelin On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium Pages: 22 - 26
Unusual spectral effects observed near Carina’s mysterious star S. JohanssonV. S. Letokhov From the Researcher’s Notebook Pages: 27 - 31
A network structure in microbiology A. V. OleskinT. A. Kirovskaya From the Researcher’s Notebook Pages: 32 - 40
Technological renovation of the economy and capital investments K. K. Val’tukh Point of View Pages: 52 - 60
The big telescope altazimuthal: Ad astra per aspera Yu. N. Efremov History of Academic Institutions Pages: 84 - 93
Swiss sacramental comradeship: A relict of the past or a memory of the future? A. I. Andreev Reflections on a New Book Pages: 99 - 103
N. A. Agadzhanyan, O. I. Aptikaeva, A. G. Gamburtsev, et al., Human Ecology in a Changing World (UrO RAN, Yekaterinburg, 2006), 570 pp. [in Russian] O. G. Gazenko In the Book World Pages: 104 - 105
The Russian Identity in Transformation: A Sociological Essay, Ed. by M. K. Gorshkov and N. E. Tikhonova (Nauka, Moscow, 2005), 396 pp. [in Russian] Z. T. GolenkovaA. Sh. Zhvitiashvili In the Book World Pages: 106 - 109