To the reader

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Dear Reader: The Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory was founded in 2010 by the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and in 2018 it started being published by MSP (Mathematical Sciences Publishers), a nonprofit scientific publisher based in Berkeley, California. Our journal publishes original, high-quality research articles from a broad range of interests within combinatorics, number theory and allied areas. Since 2011 we have published over 100 papers. Among our authors are such mathematicians as Noga Alon, Antal Balog, Jean-Pierre Demailly, Dominic Foata, Peter Frankl, Aleksandar Ivic, Sergei Konyagin, Yuri Nesterenko, Janos Pach, Yakov Sinai, Andrzej Schinzel, Wolfgang Schmidt, Carlo Viola, Michel Waldschmidt, and many others. This issue 1 of volume 8 is the first issue to appear under MSP's aegis. It contains selected papers presented by the participants of the Vilnius Conference in Combinatorics and Number Theory, which was organized with support from our journal and took place at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, 16–22 July 2017. Previous conferences connected to our journal were held in Russia (Diophantine analysis, Astrakhan, 30 July to 3 August 2012), Lithuania (Palanga Conference in Combinatorics and Number Theory, 1–7 September 2013), again Russia (Moscow Workshop in Combinatorics and Number Theory, January 27 to 2 February 2014), and Denmark (Diophantine Approximation and Related Topics, Aarhus, 13–17 July 2015). A collection of papers from the Astrakhan conference appeared in issue 3–4 of volume 3 (2013), and papers related to the Aarhus conference in issue 2–3 of volume 6 (2016). We hope that you will enjoy this issue and support the journal both with your submissions and by recommending a subscription to your institutional library!