“There is only a moment between the past and the future, it is what is called life”... Why is today’s moment always so fleeting that tomorrow, looking back at it, we will say: “That was yesterday”... What are twenty years for history? Instant. And what about two decades in a person’s life? “You don’t choose times,” one of the novel’s heroes laconically remarks. Yes, each of us lives his own time period allotted to him by fate. The events of the novel take place in 1991. The significance and drama of what happened in the last year of the existence of the USSR are especially obvious today. The sword of Damocles was already hanging over all of us then, but we didn’t know yet... Then, that year, we were simply living our lives, which for us was just an ordinary “here and now.” With its sorrows, joys, worries and passions... However, as for our heroes - young journalists working in the main news agency of the country - TASS..." Alexandra Strelnikova's novel "TASS is not authorized to declare..." became a bronze medalist in the Russian-language competition for the best publication 2013, held by the International Guild of Writers (Germany) in the category “Her Majesty’s Book!”.