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WEEKLY OF THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (SB RAS)

N 32 (2218) August 1999

	SCIENTIFIC POLICY IN ASIA From September 6 to 10, the city of Irkutsk receives an International Symposium. The topic of the symposium is Scientific Policy in Asia. Heads of national academies of sciences of Asian countries, ministers, well-known scientists are supposed to take part in it. The resulting procedure of the symposium will be accepting of the documents declaring the formation of the Association of the Academies of Sciences of Asiatic countries.
	THE SIBERIAN AGREEMENT: PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE IN AGENDA It`s hardly worth explaining why the session of the "Siberian Agreement" Inter-regional Association held in Tomsk on August 13, resembled an improvisation of experienced performers. The session was held on Friday, but some important participants had still continued changing their plans for week on Monday. They reasoned that the change of the government and Mr. S. Stepashin`s dismissal would introduce serious alterations and cause a two- or three-week delay of the session.
	SCIENCE AND HIGH SCHOOL OF SIBERIA AS A BASE FOR STEADY DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGIONS The Decision of the 32nd Council of the "Siberian Agreement" Inter-regional Association.
	ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOR THE NEED OF KUZNETSK BASIN That was the topic of the round table discussion with the participation of scientists from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, representatives of universities and applied science institutions of Kuznetsk Basin, industrials. This meeting had summarised the great organising work made by the Kemerovo Scientific Centre on the occasion of the 275th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
	RARE METALS, COMPANIONS OF HIS LIFE 60th anniversary of Prof. Gennady Pashkov.
	PROF. LASHIN`S PROJECTS: FANTASY OR FANCY? Attention of the visitors of the fair-exhibition "Science, Education, New Technologies" held in Irkutsk was drawn by a model of a set-up for chemically polluted water purification. The fundamental process in it includes the use of an accelerator. It`s easy to imagine the difficulties met by the authors of this concept while embodying it. The decisive role in the realisation of the project belongs to Prof. Anatoly Lashin, the director of the Institute of Electron Beam Technologies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
	LIGHT OUT OF THE WATERS OF THE WORLD OCEAN One of the insistent problems in late 20th and early 21st century is the conservation of the diversity of biological objects that inhabit our planet. Excessive anthropogeneous impact on natural objects leads to changing of number and - not rarely - complete disappearance of some biological species bringing a threat to biosphere equilibrium.
	ON THE SHORES OF CHANY LAKE It`s almost thirty years that the expedition base of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences works on the shores of the largest natural water body of West Siberia, Lake Chany.
	AN ENERGETIC BRIDGE FROM RUSSIA TO CHINA It is not improbable that the beginning of the next millennium will be marked with an accomplishment of a tremendous project. Mr. Victor Borovsky, the director of the "Irkutskenergo" company announced his plans to construct an energetic bridge from Russia to China.
	TRIP TO RUMANIA FOR OBSERVING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE Six astrophysicists from the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Irkutsk) were invited by the NATO Scientific Council to Rumania to observe the solar eclipse.
	ALTAI MOUNTAINS, THE WORLD-WIDE HEIRLOOM The fourth Russian territory has been included into the list of the World-wide Heirloom compiled by UNESCO. It is Altai - Golden Mountains.
	THE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL PERSONNEL In 1998, a sequence of fourty-years jubilees began at the Novosibirsk Scientific Centre (including the Central Clinical Hospital). On August of 1999, the Second Therapeutical Division (gastroenterology) celebrated its 30th anniversary.

	AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SUMMER JOYS An Essay by E. Linov.