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The main object of the paper under review is an algebraic \(k\)-variety \(V\) admitting a finite étale Galois covering of the form \(U\to V_{k'}\to V\). The ground field \(k\) is assumed perfect, \(k'\) is a finite separable extension of \(k\), both \(U\) and \(V\) are assumed geometrically integral, \(U\) is an open subset of codimension at least 4 in a \(k'\)-cellular variety \(X\) (this means that there exists a sequence of closed subsets of \(X\) \[ \emptyset = Z_0\subset Z_1\subset\dots\subset Z_n=X \] such that for \(1\leq i\leq n-1\), \(Z_{i+1}-Z_i\) is isomorphic to an affine space over \(k'\)). The action of the Galois group of the covering is assumed to be extendable to an action on \(X\) over \(k\). Under these assumptions the author constructs an exact sequence giving information on the kernel and the cokernel of the map \[ H^3(k,\mathbb Q/\mathbb Z(2))\to H^3_{\text{{ur}}/k}(k(V),\mathbb Q/\mathbb Z(2)) \] from the Galois cohomology of \(k\) to the unramified cohomology of \(V\). In the case where \(V\) is a generalized flag variety, an earlier author's result is recovered [see \textit{E. Peyre}, \(K\)-theory 15, No. 2, 99-145 (1998; Zbl 0931.12007)]. In the case where \(k\) is algebraically closed and \(G\) is a finite group, a corollary of the main result says that the equivariant Chow group \(\text{CH}^2_G(k)\) is canonically isomorphic to the group of so-called totally \(k\)-negligible classes in \(H^3(G,\mathbb Q/\mathbb Z(2))\). This relates the reviewed paper to an earlier paper by \textit{D. J. Saltman} [in: \(K\)-theory and algebraic geometry: Connections with quadratic forms and division algebras, Summar Res. Inst., Santa Barbara 1992, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 58, part 1, 189-246 (1995; Zbl 0827.13003)]. The proofs are based on the consideration of the first terms of the Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence for Lichtenbaum's complex, as in a paper by \textit{B. Kahn} [Doc. Math., J. DMV 1, 395-416 (1996; Zbl 0883.19002)]. Finally, the author extends his results to degrees four and five using motivic complexes of Voevodsky. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0931.00031].