The author of the book - the editor-in-chief of the Izvestia newspaper in epochal perestroika times, the chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR during the fierce confrontation between Gorbachev and Yeltsin - has always been in the thick of political events. With whom his fate did not reduce! There is no need to list the names - it is better to address the reader to this curious book, written by a sharp and highly professional pen.