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Recently, a number of the authors have investigated the conditions under which a stochastic perturbation acting on an infinite-dimensional dynamical system, e.g. a partial differential equation, makes the systems ergodic and mixing. In particular, one is interested in finding minimal and physically natural conditions on the nature of the stochastic perturbation. The author reviews recent results on this question, in particular, he discusses the Navier-Stokes equation on a two-dimensional torus with a random force which is white noise in time, and excites only a finite number of modes. The number of excited modes depends on the viscosity \(\nu\), and grows like \(\nu^{-3}\) when \(\nu\) goes to zero. This Markov process has a unique invariant measure and is exponentially mixing in time. Moreover, the results require that the number of modes to which noise must be added depends on the parameters of the system, although a stronger result is likely to hold (see Remark 4 after Theorem 1.1). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1011.00026].