Plasma Physics Reports -- July 2000 Volume 26, Issue 7, pp. 539-632 TOKAMAKS Simulation of START Shots with the Canonical Profile Transport Model Yu. N. Dnestrovskij, M. P. Gryaznevich, A. Yu. Dnestrovskij, J. W. Connor, S. E. Lysenko, K. N. Tarasyan, S. V. Cherkasov, and M. J. Walsh pp. 539-549 Full Text: PDF (146 kB) MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS Pseudosymmetry Near a Magnetic Surface in a Plasma Confinement System A. A. Skovoroda pp. 550-559 Full Text: PDF (119 kB) PLASMA DYNAMICS Formation of Current Sheets in Structurally Stable and Structurally Unstable Magnetic Configurations with Two Null Lines S. V. Bulanov, E. Yu. Echkina, I. N. Inovenkov, F. Pegoraro, and V. V. Pichushkin pp. 560-574 Full Text: PDF (597 kB) PLASMA TURBULENCE Parametric Turbulence–Sustained Gas Discharges A. I. Akhiezer, V. S. Mikhailenko, V. V. Ol'shansky, and K. N. Stepanov pp. 575-585 Full Text: PDF (167 kB) DUSTY PLASMA Analysis of the Formation of Ordered Dust-Grain Structures in a Thermal Plasma A. A. Samarian, O. S. Vaulina, A. P. Nefedov, and O. F. Petrov pp. 586-591 Full Text: PDF (89 kB) PLASMA ELECTRONICS Tunable Plasma Relativistic Microwave Amplifier A. V. Ponomarev, P. S. Strelkov, and A. G. Shkvarunets pp. 592-597 Full Text: PDF (99 kB) Generation of Broadband Radio Pulses by a New-Type Reflex Triode with a Virtual Cathode S. V. Bulychev, A. E. Dubinov, V. S. Zhdanov, I. L. L'vov, S. A. Sadovoy, V. D. Selemir, and V. N. Khaldeev pp. 598-601 Full Text: PDF (72 kB) NONLINEAR PHENOMENA Thomson Scattering in a Plasma Created by a Short Intense Laser Pulse M. V. Chegotov pp. 602-605 Full Text: PDF (55 kB) LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA Negative-Polarity Fast Ionization Wave in Molecular Gases: Electric Field, Electron Density, and Energy Branching N. B. Anikin, S. M. Starikovskaia, and A. Yu. Starikovskii pp. 606-616 Full Text: PDF (220 kB) Continuous Optical Discharge in Crossed Laser Beams É. B. Kulumbaev and V. M. Lelevkin pp. 617-620 Full Text: PDF (73 kB) Continuous Optical Discharge in a Gravitational Field É. B. Kulumbaev and V. M. Lelevkin pp. 621-625 Full Text: PDF (88 kB) BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Ion Separation by a Curved Magnetic Field in a Multicomponent Plasma A. V. Timofeev pp. 626-627 Full Text: PDF (32 kB) Pair Correlation Function for a Dusty Plasma S. A. Maiorov pp. 628-631 Full Text: PDF (49 kB) NEW BOOKS New Textbook on Plasma Electrodynamics: A. F. Aleksandrov and A. A. Rukhadze, Course on Electrodynamics of Plasmalike Media (Mosk. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 1999) p. 632 Full Text: PDF (15 kB)