This book was written by a man who served in state security agencies for many years. The defeat of the KGB, the collapse of the USSR, two Chechen wars, terrorism and banditry - all this is the author’s personal pain. The authoritarian rule of Boris Yeltsin, humiliating foreign loans and the creation of the shamelessly luxurious Kremlin empire of the “Family”, the unlimited power of oligarchs, high-ranking officials and the complete lack of rights of the ordinary population - this, according to Arkady Yarovoy, is the true tragedy of our long-suffering Motherland. The book contains the names of famous politicians, intelligence officers, leaders of Russia and other countries.