REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS | 
            
                Magnetron plasma and nanotechnology P V Kashtanov, B M Smirnov, R Hippler
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                    Nonsynchronous interactions V F Kravchenko, A A Kuraev, A K Sinitsyn
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                            METHODOLOGICAL NOTES | 
                            
                                Dynamic phase microscopy: is à 'dialogue' with the cell possible? V P Tychinskii
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                                        CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA | 
                                        
                                            The radio Universe N S Kardashev
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                                                On the origin of galactic cosmic rays V S Ptuskin
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                                                    Ginzburg – Landau equations for high-temperature superconductors V I Belyavsky, Yu V Kopaev
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                                                        Polarization effects in à medium: from Vavilov – Cherenkov radiation and transition radiation to dust-particle pairing, or the development of one of V L Ginzburg's ideas from 1940 to 2006 V N Tsytovich
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                                                                LETTERS TO THE EDITORS | 
                                                                
                                                                    On the possibility of the existence of fractional charges 1/2 L E Fedichkin
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                                                                            PERSONALIA | 
                                                                            
                                                                                Sergei Petrovich Denisov (on his 70th birthday) L M Barkov, S S Gershtein, B B Govorkov, S V Ivanov, V G Kadyshevsky, V M Lobashev, A A Logunov, V A Matveev, V F Obraztsov, A N Sisakyan, A N Skrinsky, N E Tyurin
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                                                                                    Vladimir Georgievich Kadyshevsky (on his 70th birthday) V V Voronov, A A Logunov, V A Matveev, M D Mateev, Yu Ts Oganesyan, V A Rubakov, A N Sisakyan, A A Slavnov, A N Tavkhelidze, V Ya Fainberg, A T Filippov, D V Shirkov
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                                                                                        Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints) Yu N Eroshenko
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