About the book: 2013 / This book is unique in that it was created behind barbed wire, in a modern high-security zone. The author managed to transport parts of it in the form of diary entries to freedom. And it all started with the fact that Boris Zemtsov, when he was deputy. The editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta got into a scandalous story related to concealing incriminating facts, and was convicted of extortion and... possession of drugs. The court sentenced the journalist to 8 years of strict regime. However, at the end of 2011, 3 years after the verdict, Zemtsov was released - to present the reader with an interesting book about the morals and characters of modern "inmates". The intellectual in the zone is the main topic of the famous journalist Boris Zemtsov.