About the book: 2016 / Alexander Sokolov is a talented publicist, economist, journalist for RBC. In the book presented to your attention, he shows the mechanism of action of Russian state corporations from Rusnano to Rostec using examples of the most famous “megaprojects”: here is Olimpstroy, and the production of Russian “supergadgets” and “supermonitors”, and the construction of various factories using high technologies, etc. The author argues that the main role in the activities of these corporations, as well as in the Russian economy as a whole, is played by “insiders,” which he calls people who have a privileged position in the state and therefore completely control large companies. The consequences of insider control for the Russian economy are disastrous, as evidenced by the figures cited by Sokolov. In the summer of 2015, A. Sokolov was arrested along with the famous writer and publicist Yu. Mukhin for “shaking the situation in the Russian Federation towards instability.” Evil tongues said that the real reason for the arrest was Sokolov’s economic investigations.