Part of the collection De aenigmate \ About the secret The desire for dominance, influence, hegemony throughout the history of human society has remained its most important characteristic. Modernity in this sense is not much different from the era of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan or Napoleon Bonaparte. However, the achievement by humanity of a certain level of development in all spheres (science, economics, communications, communications and information) has given rise to completely new, hitherto impossible and even unprecedented technologies for changing political regimes. That is why the struggle for power, information and resources in the modern world is acquiring more and more skillful and sophisticated forms. At the same time, the art of protecting state integrity and state power is in many ways similar to the principles and technologies of political coups. This circumstance forces us to closely study technological, both obvious and hidden, secret methods of seizing and reformatting power. As the Latin proverb goes, “Praemonitus praemunitus,” or “Forewarned is forearmed.”