REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS | 
            
                Intense ion beams for generating extreme states of matter V E Fortov, D H Hoffmann, B Yu Sharkov
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                    Extremely dense arrays îf germanium and silicon nanostructures A A Shklyaev, M Ichikawa
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                            METHODOLOGICAL NOTES | 
                            
                                An interpretation of the energy conservation law for à point charge moving in à uniform electric field G N Gaidukov, A A Abramov
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                                        CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA | 
                                        
                                            Room-temperature superconductivity: myth or reality? E G Maksimov
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                                                Experiments with atomically smooth thin films of cuprate superconductors: strong electron–phonon coupling and other surprises I Božović
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                                                    Structural design of superconductors based în complex copper oxides E V Antipov, A M Abakumov
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                                                        With cuprate luggage to room-temperature superconductivity Yu V Kopaev, V I Belyavskii, V V Kapaev
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                                                            Ongoing International conference on phase transitions and related critical and nonlinear phenomena in condensed media: special event held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the RAS Daghestan Science Center's Institute of Physics (12 – 15 September 2007, Makhachkala, Daghestan, RF) I K Kamilov, A K Murtazaev
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                                                                    LETTERS TO THE EDITORS | 
                                                                    
                                                                        Sagnac effect in superfluid liquids E Varoquaux, G Varoquaux
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                                                                                PERSONALIA | 
                                                                                
                                                                                    Mikhail Vissarionovich Sadovsky (on his 60th birthday) A F Andreev, V L Ginzburg, B N Goshchitsky, Yu A Izyumov, L V Keldysh, Yu V Kopaev, E G Maksimov, L A Maksimov, G A Mesyats, I M Khalatnikov
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                                                                                        Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints) Yu N Eroshenko
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