About the book: 2017 / The book by the famous TV presenter Igor Prokopenko is dedicated to the most adventurous and most controversial period of modern Russian history - the decade of the 1990s. The old Soviet regime no longer exists, a new statehood is just being built. What was happening to people at this time, how did they adapt to new realities, how intoxicated was the air of freedom? Each chapter of the book presents a different aspect of life in the 1990s: crime, the first millionaires, the vagaries of fashion, trips to the West, the sexual revolution, the pop boom, psychics and sorcerers. Was the crime boss Sylvester really killed? What agreements existed between the “brothers” and those who, as part of their duty, had to catch them? Why did the Soviet millionaire Tarasov buy dollars from prostitutes? How many thousands of dollars did Irina Saltykova receive per day on the set of the film “Brother-2”? What is the connection between Russian tourism and the all-inclusive system in Turkish hotels? Why couldn't the first beauty contest take place in the Kremlin and was moved to Sochi? What did the “lads” have to do with the tours of pop stars? What object did the psychics find in Yeltsin’s office? Flip through the pages of this book and immerse yourself for a few hours in your past - already half-forgotten, but still memorable, down to the details.