Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to inform you that the issue 5-2017 of the journal is now out. The special themes of the issue are: Toward S.M. Shirokogoroff’s 130th Anniversary [K 130-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia S.M.Shirokogorova] (guest editors A.A.Sirina and V.N.Davydov); and The Invention of Ethnos: A Little-Known History of a Well-Known Theory [Izobretenie etnosa: neizvestnaia istoriia izvestnoi teorii] (guest editor S.S.Alymov).