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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0725.00004.] The aim of this note is to give strong laws of large numbers of Rademacher-Menshov type and Móricz type for nearly orthogonal sequences of operators in a von Neumann algebra. Let \(M\) denote a \(\sigma\)-finite algebra of operators with a faithful normal state \(\phi\). For a projection \(p\in M\) denote \(p^ \perp=1-p\), and \(| x| =(x^*x)^{1/2}\) for \(x\in M\). A sequence \((x_ n)\subset M\) is almost uniformly convergent to \(x\in M\) if, for each \(\varepsilon>0\), there exists a projection \(p\in M\) with \(\phi(p^ \perp)<\varepsilon\) such that \(\parallel(x_ n-x)p\parallel\to 0\). A sequence is nearly orthogonal if there exists a sequence \((\varrho(j))\) of nonnegative numbers such that \[ | \phi(| x_ k^*x_ l|)|\leq\varrho(| k-l|)(\varphi(| x_ k|^ 2)\phi(| x_ l|^ 2))^{1/2};\;k,l\geq 1,\qquad\hbox{and}\qquad\sum_{j=0}^ \infty\varrho(j)<\infty. \] Theorem 1. Let \((x_ k)\) be a nearly orthogonal sequence in \(M\). Let \((b_ k)\) be a sequence of positive numbers satisfying some asymptotic conditions. If \[ \sum_{k=1}^ \infty (\log^ 2(k+1)/b_ k^ 2)\phi(| x_ k|^ 2)<\infty, \] then \[ (1/b_ n)\sum_{k=1}^ n x_ k\to 0\;a.u. \] (The sequences mentioned above are for example: \(b_ k=k\), \(b_ k=\log(k+1)\) or \(b_ k=k \log(k+1)\).) Proofs are based on operator estimation method and are only sketched.