Imagine a theater stage: it turns in front of us, showing more and more new scenery, but not completely canceling the old ones. “Traitor” is such a scene, a single canvas with its own core idea, which every reader can discover for himself. “Traitor” introduces us to life in the Russian army. We learn what soldiers and officers do in war and during daily service. In general, we feel very well that the author is telling the truth. In the first part of the book “Chechen Stories” he talks about the war in Chechnya. And Chechnya is a topic that we know about, but we know only from the media, which forms our typical Western opinion. Russia, Russians, the Russian army, the war in Chechnya - in many ways this is a myth for us.