Evgeniy Satanovsky is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, president of the Institute of the Middle East and professor at ISAA Moscow State University, ex-president of the Russian Jewish Congress, journalist and writer, host of the popular program “From Two to Five” on the Vesti FM radio station. Not everyone gets to see the collapse of a world empire - and at the same time, while living in it, survive. This happens once every few generations, but there is not a single country that exists forever. And even if the process of divorce of imperial provinces, which overnight become independent states, takes several days, they diverge for decades. Some are thriving. Others split and die. Still others fight among themselves. People who just yesterday were citizens of one state are building a new life or trying to preserve the old one. They run wherever they want or try to settle down in the former metropolis. They work hard or become crime lords, drug dealers and terrorists. They join the Forbes lists or the ranks of the lumpen. No life would be enough to describe this. And how can you describe the Great Flood when you yourself are being spun by its whirlpool? It was not for nothing that the Chinese wanted the time of change to pass them by. But if she came, it would be a sin not to describe what you see and what everything seems to be heading towards. This is what this book is about. In it, the author honestly tried to take the position of a neutral observer, although he was not very successful. Such karma...The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.