UFN, 2002, Volume 172, Number 2

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2002, Volume 172, Number 2

REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS
	Competition between superconductivity and magnetism in ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures Yu. A. Izyumov, Yu. N. Proshin, M. G. Khusainov		113
	Polarization effects in atomic transitions V. A. Astapenko, L. A. Bureeva, V. S. Lisitsa		155
	Unusual acoustic birefringence phenomena in antiferromagnets E. A. Turov, I. F. Mirsaev, V. V. Nikolaev		193

PHYSICS OF OUR DAYS
	On some advances in physics and astronomy over the past three years V. L. Ginzburg		213

PHYSICS NEWS ON THE INTERNET
	Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints) Yu. N. Eroshenko		220

PHYSICS OF OUR DAYS
	Inflationary universe and the vacuumlike state of physical medium E. B. Gliner		221

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
	Joint scientific session of the Division of General Physics and Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the United Physical Society of the Russian Federation (26 September 2001)		229
		Crystallographic picture of the world R. V. Galiulin	229
		Electronic conductivity of icosahedral quasi-crystals Yu. Kh. Vekilov	233

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
	Remarks on the paper by G A Goncharov and L D Ryabev "The development of the first Soviet atomic bomb " V. S. Shpinel'		235
	About V S Shpinel's remarks on the review "The development of the first Soviet atomic bomb" G. A. Goncharov, L. D. Ryabev		236

BIBLIOGRAPHY
	New books on physics and related sciences E. V. Zakharova		239