The one-man regime established in Russia by Mr. Yeltsin since 1991, which deprived citizens of basic economic as well as social rights and freedoms, acquired features characteristic of an organized criminal community. The reasons for this phenomenon and its consequences can be understood by following the pages The novel “Choice” tells the story of ordinary citizens of our country from 1989 to 1996. Citizens brought up by the Soviet regime in the spirit of collectivism never imagined that the state-controlled media could shamelessly lie. In such conditions, an ordinary person had to make a choice: to remain committed to the ideals of goodness and justice or to join the newly-minted pack, where “man is a wolf to man”