REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS | 
            
                Energy losses in relativistic plasmas: QCD versus QED S Peigné, A V Smilga
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                659 | 
                
                    
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                        FROM THE CURRENT LITERATURE | 
                        
                            Positronium in a cavity in a high-Tc superconductor V L Sedov
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                            687 | 
                            
                                
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                                    FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS | 
                                    
                                        Magnetic resonance: discovery, investigations, and applications A V Kessenikh
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                                        695 | 
                                        
                                            
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                                                CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA | 
                                                
                                                    Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the birth of Academician B B Kadomtsev (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 10 December 2008):
 V P Smirnov, S V Mirnov, L M Kovrizhnykh, A V Gurevich, A N Karashtin, V A Ryabov, A P Chubenko, A L Shepetov, V I Ilgisonis
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                                                    723 | 
                                                    
                                                        Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the birth of Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev (opening address) V P Smirnov
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                                                        723 | 
                                                        
                                                            Academician B B Kadomtsev and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) S V Mirnov
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                                                            725 | 
                                                            
                                                                The current status of the stellarator program L M Kovrizhnykh
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                                                                730 | 
                                                                
                                                                    Nonlinear phenomena in the ionospheric plasma. Effects of cosmic rays and runaway breakdown on thunderstorm discharges A V Gurevich, A N Karashtin, V A Ryabov, A P Chubenko, A L Shepetov
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                                                                    735 | 
                                                                    
                                                                        B B Kadomtsev's classical results and the plasma rotation in modern tokamaks V I Ilgisonis
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                                                                        746 | 
                                                                        
                                                                            
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                                                                                LETTERS TO THE EDITORS | 
                                                                                
                                                                                    On the existence and physical meaning of the Zenneck wave A V Kukushkin
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                                                                                    755 | 
                                                                                    
                                                                                        
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                                                                                            PERSONALIA | 
                                                                                            
                                                                                                Lev Borisovich Okun (on his 80th birthday) M I Vysotsky, S S Gershtein, V I Zakharov, V S Imshennik, A B Kaidalov, V I Kogan, A Yu Morozov, V A Novikov, V A Rubakov, Yu A Simonov, A N Skrinsky, N E Tyurin
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                                                                                                757 | 
                                                                                                
                                                                                                    Semen Solomonovich Gershtein (on his 80th birthday) S P Alliluev, A F Andreev, S T Belyaev, S P Denisov, V G Kadyshevsky, A K Likhoded, A A Logunov, V A Matveev, L B Okun, L I Ponomarev, A N Skrinsky, N E Tyurin
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                                                                                                    759 | 
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                        Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints) Yu N Eroshenko
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                                                                                                        763 |