This book was published on the initiative of UNESCO in France and Germany, the USA and Spain, and now it has come to the Russian reader. Its author was a professional journalist for TASS and APN, now a Doctor of Historical Sciences, an employee of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Topic his next journalistic investigation is showing how and why the Soviet Union collapsed, under the influence of the lies of television and newspapers about Chernobyl and Afghanistan, Tbilisi and Vilnius, Foros and the Kremlin. The emergence of a free press and private school textbooks in independent Russia, access to archives and computer networks, the birth of cable television and independent television studios eliminated the state monopoly on information. Journalists are no longer chronic liars and provocateurs - according to the author of the book, this gives us hope.