Alisa Prikhudaylova about Mosurbanforum 2016. A week ago, the Moscow Urban Forum, which has already become a traditional vanity fair, took place. Over the five years of its existence, the Forum has developed a format, program and agenda.

Tools of the Olduvai era: 1 - chopper; 2, 3 — shopping; 4, 5, 8 – tools on flakes; 6, 7—disc-shaped cores. Archeology / Ed. V.L. Ioannina. M., 2006. P. 45. A1 A scattering of letters falling from the sky - like stars, like rainbows, like lightning we are gifted. They formed into a legend. Having seen the sign, understand the opportunity connections silent existence and the universe, of an enormous world being: does it exist, no - there is nothing else.

We are publishing an excerpt from the book “Bento’s Notebook” by British art critic, writer and artist John Burger, about how the author gave a Japanese brush to a Cambodian woman who fled the Khmer Rouge. The book was published as part of the joint publishing program of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the publishing house Ad Marginem. John Burger "Bento Notebook" (2016) I want to tell you a story about how I gave away a Japanese calligraphy brush, a sedo.

photo: Kazuchika Naya (http://orig02.deviantart.net/dbb1/f/2014/106/8/e/all_nippon_airways_pokemon_by_wiivolution2-d7ep5cn.jpg) I'll start with some background. Yesterday my son and I went to the dinosaur park. Similar attractions can be seen in most major cities of Russia. The feature of this particular park is its location: animatronic copies of ancient monsters were placed in a forested park area, and not in a pavilion.

During the day there is nothing to do in the city except sit in a cafe or on a bench reading a newspaper, but in the morning or evening, when the side sun is shining, it is at this time that the city shows what is hidden by direct lighting - that face, that surface that we perceive as existing - veins, wrinkles, irregularities. Everything that makes a city a subject of history. Only then is the city maximally ontological and only then is it open.

The package of “anti-terrorism” amendments to legislation adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on Friday, June 24, in final reading, which became known as the “Yarovaya Law,” is extremely unfinished, offends millions of Russians and is capable of creating a lot of problems for the state and society. This assessment was expressed by authoritative Russian experts in the field of law and religion, as well as famous clergy, interviewed by REF News .