In front of you is an audiobook about a grand deception and the greatest swindle that happened in Russia over the last 20 years. The long-awaited “perestroika” and “economic reforms,” upon closer inspection, turned out to be nothing more than a banal robbery of the population—or, in the words of Alexander Bushkov, the Great Grab.
The author draws vivid portraits of the “heroes of our time,” who, almost by accident, tucked Russia’s national wealth into their personal pockets. Gusinsky—the media magnate, Berezovsky—the “truth-lover,” Khodorkovsky—the “prisoner of conscience”… Who are they really? And what should be done next, after everything that has happened to us?