The “YUKOS case” was followed for many years by both our entire country and the entire civilized world. During the trials against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, not only the team of lawyers and the Russian justice system, which is right by its very definition, collided. It was a confrontation between the new business, its defenders and the state machine... with a completely predictable result. The famous lawyer Konstantin Rivkin was not just one of the participants in these processes, who had access to all the subtleties of an inside view. He felt from his own experience what it is like when the state fights independent business, not disdaining any means, including intimidation and persecution of lawyers. His book is a unique testimony of those damned days and trials, written with lawyer pedantry and clever irony. on which the entrepreneurial future of the country was destroyed. These are not just memoirs and biographies of individual human destinies, often tragic. This is not only a reliable story of the defeat of the once most successful oil company. The book contains unknown details and evidence, a professional analysis of modern problems of Russian criminal justice, with deep insight into the essence of its problems. And at the same time, this is a manual for today's lawyers who are forced to work in the system, when the address “Your Honor” sounds like involuntary sarcasm. And, finally, one of the most valuable components of this publication is a tribute to the memory of a man who, like the main characters, has become so dear to the author over the years.