I hardly know how to comment on this Facebook post by the architect and former MARKHI professor Evgeny Ass

I hardly know how to comment on this Facebook post by the architect and former MARKHI professor Evgeny Ass. The gatehouse of MARKHI, which occupies the Volynsky-Vorontsov estate, has turned into this. The structure has undergone several transformations of late; I remember that not long ago it looked like a booth made of plasterboard. Now it is this. I cannot tell what it resembles more: a tragicomic allusion to the age of Nicholas I, or the woodshed at the dacha of the head of some state corporation. And above all, I cannot understand whether the rector has seen it. Does he pass through this gatehouse on his way to work? Or is he led in with his eyes shut..

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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I hardly know how to comment on this Facebook post by the architect and former MARKHI professor Evgeny Ass

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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