REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS

E.S. Belenkaya “Magnetospheres of magnetized planets” 52 (8) (2009)

N.B. Ivanova, S.G. Ovchinnikov, M.M. Korshunov, I.M. Eremin, N.V. Kazak “The features of spin, charge and orbital orderings in the cobaltites” 52 (8) (2009)

METHODOLOGICAL NOTES

A.A. Shatskii “The sky of a universe as seen through a wormhole” 52 (8) (2009)

V.I. Alshits, V.N. Lyubimov “Extending the Leontovich impedance approximation for electromagnetic fields at a dielectric — metal interface” 52 (8) (2009)

M.I. Krivoruchenko “Rotation of the plane of swing of Foucault’s pendulum and the Thomas spin precession: two sides of one coin” 52 (8) (2009)

Yu.Kh. Vekilov, O.M. Krasilnikov “Structural transformations in metals at high compression” 52 (8) (2009)

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

A.A. Gorbatsevich, O.E. Omel’yanovskii, V.I. Tsebro, A.K. Zvezdin, A.P. Pyatakov, A.A. Mukhin, V.Yu. Ivanov, V.D. Travkin, A.S. Prokhorov, A.A. Volkov, A.V. Pimenov, A.M. Shuvaev, A. Loidl, V.M. Mukhortov, Yu.I. Golovko, Yu.I. Yuzyuk “Magnetoelectrics (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 20 January 2009)” 52 (8) (2009)

A.A. Gorbatsevich, O.E. Omel’yanovskii, V.I. Tsebro “Toroidal ordering in crystals and nanostructures” 52 (8) (2009)

A.K. Zvezdin, A.P. Pyatakov “Inhomogeneous magnetoelectric interaction and associated new effects in multiferroics” 52 (8) (2009)

A.A. Mukhin, V.Yu. Ivanov, V.D. Travkin, A.S. Prokhorov, A.A. Volkov, A.V. Pimenov, A.M. Shuvaev, A. Loidl “Terahertz spectroscopy and the magnetoelectric properties of manganite multiferroics” 52 (8) (2009)

V.M. Mukhortov, Yu.I. Golovko, Yu.I. Yuzyuk “Heteroepitaxial thin films of multiferroic neodymium-doped bismuth ferrite” 52 (8) (2009)

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

A.M. Cherepashchuk “Exotic aspects of black holes: an astronaut near the horizon” 52 (8) (2009)

PERSONALIA

A.V. Gurevich, E.A. Kuznetsov, G.A. Mesyats, A.V. Mikhailov, S.L. Musher, S.P. Novikov, A.M. Rubenchik, R.Z. Sagdeev, G.I. Smirnov, Ya.G. Sinai, A.N. Skrinskii, V.E. Fortov “Vladimir Evgen’evich Zakharov (on his 70th birthday)” 52 (8) (2009)

I.V. Grekhov, V.N. Kisel’, M.A. Pogosyan, F.G. Rutberg, A.K. Sarychev, V.P. Smirnov, O.N. Favorskii, A.I. Fedorenko, V.E. Fortov, V.Yu. Khomich, A.E. Sheindlin, I.T. Yakubov “Andrei Nikolaevich Lagar’kov (on his 70th birthday)” 52 (8) (2009)

PHYSICS NEWS ON THE INTERNET

Yu.N. Eroshenko “Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints)” 52 (8) (2009)