N 2 (2388) January 2003

	In the issue:
	SESSION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL ON SCIENCE
	SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION V.V.PUTIN at the session of the Council on Science and High Technologies under the President of Russia, January 14, 2003.
	VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS FOUND A PLACE FOR SCIENCE IN THE ECONOMY
	PROBLEMS OF "SCIENCE CITIES" DISCUSSED IN KREMLIN
	VACANCIES FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE RAS ANNOUNCED
	HOLIDAYS ARE OVER, IT IS TIME TO WORK! In a long train New Year's holidays, Christmas, old New year passing by. One year replaces another, adding bustle as well as problems, non-accomplished tasks... However to keep an interest in the work, prescribed pace, aspiration to search is main thing at all times.
	FUNDAMENTAL BIOLOGY AND NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES The Chairman of the SB RAS Academician N.Dobretsov has called the General Meeting of the Siberian Branch of the RAS held in the middle of December of the last year an experimental one since it was held as scientific session. The session began from the report of the director of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Academician of the RAS V.Shumnyi, devoted to 50th anniversary of the DNA duplex discovery, the greatest event in biology.
	ECOLOGY AND BIOVARIETY From the report of Academician E.Vaganov at the scientific session of the General Meeting of the SB RAS, December 15, 2002.
	BIOPHYSICS AND BIOSPHERE MODELING From the speech of Corresponding Member of the RAS, Director of the Institute of Biophysics of the SB RAS A.Degermenjee at the scientific session of the General Meeting of the SB RAS, December 15, 2002.
	SIMULATION OF FUNDAMENTAL GENETIC SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES From the speech of Doctor Sc. (Biology) N.Kolchanov (ICG).
	SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR LIFE SCIENCES
	THE RAMS PRESIDIUM MEETING
	LEADING ROLE OF THE YOUTH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: THE NSC YOUNG SCIENTISTS' OPINION
	ACADEMICIAN SERGEI SOBOLEV AND FREEDOM The 3rd of January is the day of memory of outstanding Russian mathematician, Academician Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (1908-1989). This year he would be 95 years old.
	MY TEACHER BORIS VLADIMIROVICH PTITSIN On the occasion of the 100th anniversary from the birthday.
	TO DISCHARGE THE RETIRED? Reduction of the normative number of the workers will not improve the stuff situation in the RAS.
	ON THE NORMATIVE NUMBER Decree of the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the RAS.
	VACANCIES
	THE SibAcademBank INFORMING
	BRING CHUBAIS TO A STOP! About the project of re-structuring of the Russian energy branch offered by Anatoli Chubais.
	PLAYBILL OF THE HOUSE OF SCIENTISTS
	In memoriam Academician Alexei Vasilievich Pogorelov.
	AT THE DAY OF MEMORY OF ACADEMICIAN V.A.KOPTIUG

Photos in the issue by V.Novikov

Translated by O.V.Polyakov
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