Book M.N. Poltoranina "Power in TNT equivalent," which became a bestseller, withstood more than a dozen editions. This new, corrected and supplemented, already in the realities of recent years, the publication is able to amaze the reader no less than the first. Mikhail Poltoranin, an idealistic democrat, at one time the right hand of Yeltsin, was a direct witness to how our power died and degraded as a person the first president of Russia. At first, his ardent supporter and closest ally, later he subjected the newly-minted owner of the Kremlin, who surrendered the country, to merciless criticism. In one of his interviews, Poltoranin admitted: "If I had returned at that time, I would have recommended at the congress not to give Yeltsin additional powers.