1. Strategic stability: Scientific–technological, military, and political aspects

   • Andrei Afanas’evich Kokoshin

   Science and Society 24 December 2015 Pages: 467 - 473

2. A year of bifurcation in the dynamics of the global economy

   • Askar Akaevich Akaev

   Science and Society 24 December 2015 Pages: 474 - 483

3. Supercomputer technologies in Russia: Status and problems of development

   • Vladimir Borisovich Betelin

   On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium 24 December 2015 Pages: 484 - 494

4. Russia’s soil cover amid global challenges

   • Andrei Leonidovich Ivanov

   On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium 24 December 2015 Pages: 495 - 503

5. Problems of prevention and treatment of decompression sickness in divers

   • Viktor Petrovich Nikolaev
   • Anatolii Ivanovich Grigoriev

   From the Researcher’s Notebook 24 December 2015 Pages: 504 - 509

6. Losses related to premature death at an economically active age

   • Sergei Anatol’evich Boitsov
   • Irina Vladimirovna Samorodskaya
   • Mariya Aleksandrovna Vatolina

   From the Researcher’s Notebook 24 December 2015 Pages: 510 - 514

7. A new epoch in medical microbiology

   • Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Baranov
   • Andrei Nikolaevich Mayanskii
   • Nikolai Andreevich Mayanskii

   Review 24 December 2015 Pages: 515 - 522

8. Lithology of microbialites

   • V. G. Kuznetsov

   Review 24 December 2015 Pages: 523 - 532

9. The philosophy of science: A political turn

   • Il’ya Teodorovich Kasavin

   Essay 24 December 2015 Pages: 533 - 541