The 1990s were one of the most difficult and difficult for people in the post-war history of our country. But it was also a time of great hope that it would be possible to make a decisive turn in our development, to create a fundamentally new, market economy and a democratic society. In some ways, these hopes came true, in some ways not, but it cannot be denied that it was the nineties that changed Russia. About this time, Evgeny Grigorievich Yasin ten years ago, when the nuances of events were still fresh in the memory of many, talked in the studio of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" with his fellow reformers, pioneers of Russian entrepreneurship, experts in various spheres of economic, political and public life. Today, these conversations are perceived as a document of the era