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The paper contains a survey on the problem of perturbation of invariant subspaces. If \(X\) is an invariant subspace of \(M\) and \(\widetilde X\) the corresponding invariant subspace of \(\widetilde M= M+\delta M\), then the distance of \(X\) and \(\widetilde X\) is defined as the norm of the difference between the projections on \(X\) and \(\widetilde X\), respectively. Alternatively, this distance may be defined as largest canonical angle between \(X\) and its perturbation. Two approaches are discussed: Firstly, a perturbation bound is given in terms of \(|\delta M|\), secondly, for Hermitian matrices the relative perturbation of matrix elements is being considered. This article is continued by \textit{N. Truhar} and \textit{I. Slapničar} [ibid. 1, No. 2, 169-174 (1996; reviewed below)].