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/^t/However, there is a limit of staring at the glass box in the corner of your room, besides, you are only a human being and the presence of other people would do you good from time to time. Unfortunately, there is only one place where you can meet your friends - the nearest bar (there are several of them in a small town) - a sordid, dirty shack with drunkards staggering all around, mumbling some incomprehensible words to themselves. If you happen not to like this place, you spend your leisure time at home, because, in fact, bars are almost the only entertainment establishments available. Seldom are there any museums, but if there are, the exhibitions remain unchanged for years. The cinema (if at all) offers you the very commercial items, because no unconventoonal artistic undertaking would attract crowds, therefore, it would not be profitable. The elevated notions of culture achievements, like theatre or (God save us!) opera, are forgotten or used only in jokes.