[The alcoholism as a medical social problem].

The anti alcoholic policy in the Russian Federation has to be developed against a background of the enhancement of quality of statistics of mortality and actual losses due to alcoholisation. Also, the monitoring of epidemic aftermaths of the new framework of alcohol consumption among the youth and the results of target research studies of alcoholism situation in various social groups of Russia has to be considered.

[The interrelationship of alcoholic psychoses and lethal alcohol intoxications with population cash income].

The analysis of dependence of alcoholic psychoses and lethal alcohol intoxications from the portion of poor population all over 87 regions of the Russian Federation revealed the decrease in alcoholism morbidity up to 70.7%. Thereby, the poorer is the territory the higher is the indexes of morbidity and mortality because of alcoholism.

Application of neutron generators for high explosives, toxic agents and fissile material detection.

The portable pulsed neutron generators developed and designed by VNIIA are presented. The neutron methods are good tools for non-destructive assay of dangerous materials. The samples of various systems for the detection of high explosives in luggage, identification of toxic agents in chemical munitions, and also for the prevention of illicit trafficking of fissile elements in passengers' luggage are discussed.

[Not Available]. / [The ideas of the evolution above the species level in the works of leading geneticists of the first half of the 20th century]

The ideas of such prominent geneticists as Vries, Cuenot, Guyenot, Johannsen, Tchetverykov, Philiptchenko are considered. The conjectures on the specific mechanisms of evolution above the species level may be found in many of them. The very terms of micro- and macroevolution have been proposed by Philiptchenko in 1927. But he denied any role of genetics in puzzling of the higher taxa origin, the letter being connected him with sexual sells plasma. The actual significance of Goldschmidt's conception about systemic mutations is mentioned.

[The protective action of arbidol during a rise in respiratory diseases in 1990]. / Izuchenie zashchitnogo deistviia arbidola vo vremia pod''ema respiratornykh zabolevanii v 1990 g.

Prophylactic properties of a new chemical drug, arbidol, against acute respiratory diseases (ARD) were studied. Arbidol given daily in a dose of 0.2 g for 19 days reduced the morbidity rate 2.3-fold in adults during an outbreak of ARD. Geometric mean titres of antibodies to respiratory viruses among healthy persons did not change after treatment with arbidol indicating the lack of immunosuppressive properties in the drug. The prophylactic effect of arbidol may be due to both specific effect of the drug on influenza and parainfluenza viruses, and its interferon-inducing and immunity-stimulating properties.