Reviews of topical problems

A.R. Khokhlov, E.E. Dormidontova “Self-organization in ion-containing polymer systems” 40 109–124 (1997)

A.Yu. Grosberg “Disordered polymers” 40 125–158 (1997)

M.I. Tribel’skii “Short-wavelength instability and transition to chaos in distributed systems with additional symmetry” 40 159–180 (1997)

M.I. Kaganov, N.B. Pustyl’nik, T.I. Shalaeva “Magnons, magnetic polaritons, magnetostatic waves” 40 181–224 (1997)

From the history of physics

A.Yu. Grosberg, M.I. Kaganov, M.I. Tribel’skii, A.R. Khokhlov “Il’ya Mikhailovich Lifshits (on the 80th anniversary of his birth)” 40 225–226 (1997)

Physics news on the internet

Yu.N. Eroshenko “Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints)” 40 227–228 (1997)