About the book: 2016 / BBK 60.52 P12 With the support of: the Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research and personally Simon Kordonsky, Stanislav Shchukin, Konstantin Dolinin, Igor Lutsky, Danila Rozanov, Maxim Sher, Mikhail Pavlov, Olga Valieva, Katerina Kovaleva, Victor Podlozhnyuk, Vitaly Listratkin, Alexey Leshchev, Artem Gorbunov, Evgeny Chirochkin, Cholpon Beishenalieva, Igor Zolnikov, Radik Saleev and other friends. Pavlov, Alexander Borisovich. Demon of change. Introduction to the operational alchemy of Russian life. -U.: IP Pavlov A.B., 2016. - 55 pp. The book examines the main trends that have developed in the socio-economic life of Russia in recent years, revealed with a fair amount of targeted, but quite conscious, provocation, which, however, , had no effect on the basic meanings.