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Recent developments in the field of semimagnetic IV-VI semiconductors are discussed with the emphasis on magnetic properties of bulk crystals with rare-earth ions (e.g., Sn_{1-x}Gd_{x}Te, Pb_{1-x} Ce_{x}Se, Pb_{1-x}Eu_{x}Te) and new low-dimensional magnetic multilayers (PbTe-EuTe and PbS-EuS). The other issues addressed, concern the new results in transport properties of ferromagnetic Pb_{1-x-y}Sn_{y}Mn_{x}Te, the observation of the Knight shift in electron paramagnetic resonance in PbTe:Mn and SnTe:Mn, and the thermoelectric properties of PbTe-Pb_{1-x}Eu_{x}Te quantum wells.