About the book: 2015 / Book by M.N. Poltoranina “Power in TNT Equivalent,” which became a bestseller, went through more than a dozen editions. This new, corrected and expanded, already in the realities of recent years, edition is able to amaze the reader no less than the first. Mikhail Poltoranin, an idealistic democrat, at one time Yeltsin’s right hand, was a direct witness to how our state was dying and the first president of Russia was degrading as a person. At first his ardent supporter and closest ally, he later subjected the newly-minted master of the Kremlin, who was surrendering the country, to merciless criticism. In one of his interviews, Poltoranin admitted: “If I had returned to that time, at the congress I would have recommended not to give Yeltsin additional powers. He would say: “Don’t give this guy a match, he can burn down the whole of Russia.” Pravda special correspondent, then, as appointed by B.N. Yeltsin, editor-in-chief of the Moskovskaya Pravda newspaper, in the early 1990s he reached the apogee of his political career: he was Minister of Press and Information, Deputy Chairman of the Government. The secrets of the Kremlin court were revealed to him in all their sinister authenticity. As if in a casino, but not in some Las Vegas, for the sake of fun, playfully, the deliberate destruction of the Russian economy, the plunder of its wealth, the appropriation of people's property by a bunch of nouveau riche and the destruction of the people themselves took place. How it was, what forces stood and still stand behind the backs of the authorities, an eyewitness to the behind-the-scenes intrigues of the Kremlin tells in detail and in person in his book, somewhat repentant, based on true facts and personal observations..