Mikhail Olshanetsky is Leading Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow). He is the author of 90 scientific papers and reviews and has been a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, University Roma I, Max-Planck Institute of Mathematics at Bonn and University of Edinburgh. Arkady Vainshtein is Professor of Physics and a member of the Theoretical Physics Institute at University of Minnesota. He is the author of 160 research papers in particle physics and quantum field theory. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the 1999 Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics from this society.

• Personal Notes: My Brother (I Kwartin); My Dear Old Friend Misha (L Brink); Quantum Tunneling, Coherence and Decoherence: Quantum Tunneling (M Shifman); Evolution Kernels for Phase-Space Distributions (B Segev); Quantization of Constrained System, Integrable Models: Lie Algebroids as Gauge Symmetries in Topological Field Theories (M Olshanetsky); Classical Integrable System: Selected Topics (A Perelomov); Quantum Chromodynamics, Hadrons and Fields: Probabilistic Model of Reggeon Field Theory (K G Boreskov); Diffractive Processes and QCD (A B Kaidalov); Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Supersymmetry: A Theory of algebraic Integration (R Casalbuoni); The Witten Index Beyond the Adiabatic Approximation (P van Baal); Other Aspects: Cube or Hypercube of Natural Units (L B Okun); Approximation Methods in Classical and Quantum Theories (R Kerner); Strings, Branes and Higher Dimensions: Aspects of Tachyon Condensation in String Theory (Y Oz); String Tension in Two-Dimensional Gauge Theories (A Armoni et al.); and other articles.