About the book: 2014 / This book is a social travelogue, that is, an attempt to describe and explain what seems unusual and strange to a Russian traveler. Why don't people appreciate Soviet history in Vladivostok? Why was it that in London (yes, in London, not Amsterdam!) drugs were sold legally on the streets until recently? Why are there 24-hour movida, crowds and revelry in Madrid and St. Petersburg, but not in Moscow? Why can’t the mayor of Düsseldorf live in his own residence? Why are transvestites the best friends of children in Thailand? What does the Russian ambassador to Ukraine do, besides breeding peacocks? And so - about 20 countries and 20 cities in the descriptions of the journalist, who in Russia is often called “scandalous,” although the scandalousness of Dmitry Gubin, according to him, comes down to the fact that he “orders chaos to the level of meanings, despite the fact that the meanings the nakedness of kings is often exposed».