As part of the Tashkent-Tbilisi project, we present the online premiere of Danila Lipatov’s film “Altitude Sickness of the Russian Border Guard.” Using fragments from diary entries and interviews, this work tells the story of the Pamir Highway, a high-altitude highway connecting Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Exactly 95 steps from my house to the School for Special Children. The inscription “Special children may scream and behave in some unusual way” is located on the facade of this educational institution. There are four such signs on the building where the school is located, on each side of the building. We made an appointment with the school principal at 11 am. We chose an inopportune time for our conversation. The school received an inspection ahead of the upcoming school year.

Sitting at home was downright boring. The hostess disappeared during the day, God knows where, and I didn’t even ask, either in a hatha yoga group, or in the “Literary Lyre” club at the bookstore. Maybe she signed up to volunteer, sits with her friends, sipping beer in a strip bar... Who knows, but she returned late, cheerful and content, with a blush all over her cheek. She left Lucinda in my care and no worries... mommy, they call it.

With a retrospective between contemplation and reflection on the optics of understanding Russian philosophy, the Almanac ΤΕΜΕΝΟΣ opens a series of articles by Russian scientists: Vyacheslav Petrovich and Zhanna Leonidovna Okeansky, dedicated to the explication of the phenomena of culture and civilization through the heroes of Russian literature, and the crisisological approach to eschatology and the noosphere.

Man is a sparkle of perfection with his tail peeking out from underneath. * The nose is a person’s last chance to comprehend the absolute. * Everything can be understood with the nose. * Life is an expression of the tail. * Life is a choice between the preferences of the nose and the preferences of the tail. * Don't look for the truth in the tail. * There is nothing in nature but tails and noses. * The main question of philosophy: who prefers to stick their nose where?