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Let \({\mathcal L}(R)\) and \({\mathcal K}(R)\) be, respectively, the locally nilpotent radical of Levitzki and the upper nil radical of Köthe of the ring \(R\). The purpose of the paper under review is to announce (with sketches of the proofs only) some relations between these radicals of the ring \(K\), of the twisted group rings \(K_\rho G\) and the crossed products \(K*G\) of a group \(G\) over \(K\). The first result states: Let the ring \(K\) be prime of characteristic \(p\geq 0\), with \({\mathcal K}(K)=0\). If the group of inner automorphisms \(G_{\text{inn}}\subset\Aut K\) has no \(p\)-torsion if \(p>0\), then \({\mathcal K}(K*G)=0\). The second result gives that in the case of an arbitrary ring \(K\), if the orders of the torsion elements of \(G\) are not zero divisors in \(K\), then \({\mathcal L}(K)_\rho G\subseteq{\mathcal K}(K_\rho G)\subseteq{\mathcal K}(K)_\rho G\).