  Investigation of near field of QED requires the refuse from an averaging of
the Lorentz condition that smooths out some field peculiarities. Instead of it
Schwinger decomposition of the 4-potential with the Bogoliubov method of
interaction switching in time and in space regions is considered. At such
approach near field is describable by the part of covariant Green function of
QED, the fast-damping Schwinger function formed by longitudinal and scalar
components of A&#956; none restricted by light cone. This description reveals
possibility of superluminal phenomena within the near field zone as a
"nonlocality in the small". Some specification of Bogoliubov method allows, as
examples, descriptions of near fields of point-like charge and at FTIR
phenomena. Precisely such possibilities of nonlocal interactions are revealed
in the common QED expressions for the Van-der-Waals and Casimir interactions
and in the F\"{o}rster law.
  Key words: Lorentz condition, near field, propagators, superluminal, FTIR.
  PACS: 03.30.+p, 12.20.-m, 13.40.-f, 68.37.Uv.
