This book is dedicated to the loudest revelations of recent Russian politics. “Rutskoi’s suitcases”, the sex scandals of Valentin Kovalev and Yuri Skuratov, the famous “Xerox box”, the revelations of Major Dymovsky, the “cap in business” of Yuri Luzhkov - these scandals changed the course of modern history. It may involuntarily seem that power in our country belongs not to the president, not to ministers and governors, but to some mysterious “manufacturers of compromising material” who write their dirty stories day and night. However, compromising evidence does not always ruin the reputation of politicians; sometimes, on the contrary, it makes an unknown person a “hero of our time” and even the ruler of thoughts. The book encourages you to think about how the mechanism of compromising evidence works, who suffers from it and why, and how to avoid death on the battlefield of an information war.