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Fifty years ago P. Erdős and A. Rényi published their famous paper on the new law of large numbers. In this survey, we describe numerous results and achievements which are related with this paper or motivated by it during these years.

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    A. N. Frolov. On asymptotic behaviour of large increments of sums of independent random variables. Theor. Probab. Appl., 47(2):366374, 2002. English transl.: Theor. Probab. Appl., 47, no. 2, 315–323, (2003).

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    A. N. Frolov. One-sided strong laws for increments of sums of i.i.d. random variables. Studia Sci. Math. Hungar., 39: 333359, 2002.

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    A. N. Frolov. Limit theorems for increments of processes with independent increments. Doklady Akademii nauk, 393(2):165169, 2003. English transl.: Doklady Math., 68, no. 3, 345–349, (2003).

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    A. N. Frolov. Limit theorems for increments of sums independent random variables. Theor. Probab. Appl., 48(1):104121, 2003. English transl.: Theor. Probab. Appl., 48, no. 1, 93–107, (2004).

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    A. N. Frolov. On asymptotic behaviour of increments of random fields. Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI, 298:191207, 2003. English transl.: J. Math. Sci., 128, no. 1, 2604–2613, (2005).

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    A. N. Frolov. On the law of the iterated logarithm for increments of sums of independent random variables. Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI, 320:174186, 2004. English transl.: J. Math. Sci., 137, no. 1, 4575–4582, (2006).

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    A. N. Frolov. Universal strong laws for increments of processes with independent increments. Theor. Probab. Appl., 49(3):601609, 2004. English transl.: Theor. Probab. Appl., 49, no. 3, 531–540, (2005).

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    A. N. Frolov. Limit theorems for increments of compound renewal processes. Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI, 351:259283, 2007. English transl.: J. Math. Sci., 152, no. 6, 944–957, (2008).

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    A. N. Frolov. Universal theory for strong limit theorems of probability. World Scientific, Singapore, 2019.

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