About the book: 2018 / Andrei Babitsky has been at the forefront of the information war for a quarter of a century. He covered all the significant events of recent history (after the shooting of the White House in 1993, he even left Radio Liberty, considering Yeltsin’s actions criminal), worked as a war correspondent in both Chechen wars and in other “hot spots”, and during the Second Chechen War for his sharply critical reports from Grozny against federal forces, he was arrested by Russian special services. This case was under the personal control of Vladimir Putin, who publicly called him a traitor. After the trial found Babitsky guilty, he went to the headquarters of Radio Liberty in Prague, where he worked for 15 years until he was fired from the radio station in 2015 due to statements supporting Russian actions in Crimea and honest coverage of Ukrainian war crimes. army in Donbass. IN THE NEW BOOK, the famous journalist not only for the first time openly told the story of his degeneration from an anti-Russian liberal into a Russian patriot and the acquisition of internal harmony, about the current attitude towards Putin, the situation in Chechnya, the Russian liberal community and journalism, freedom of speech in the West, but and about what Russians can expect in relations with the United States and Europe and whether the cultural code of Russia itself is hostile to Western identity.