About the book: 2005 / In a certain kingdom, a certain state, there was abundant land and there was no order at all, the wittiest one once remarked from its chroniclers. The earth gave birth regularly year after year, but the people who inhabited it were hungry, barefoot and uncultured. The rulers ruled, the rebels rebelled, the people remained silent, but nothing changed. The best minds of the state became dull, trying to comprehend this order of things, which gave rise to the quietest of the poets of that land to compose a thesis about its incomprehensibility. Each of the rulers before interceding knew perfectly well what he wanted and what he would do. But, having stepped in, he was completely lost and began to do not at all what he had intended, and not what was advised to him, and not what he should have done, and certainly not at all what could be imagined within the framework of common sense. The whole point is , that after the coronation, or a meeting of the Boyar Duma, or the Presidium of the Supreme Council, or the inauguration, when the newly-made ruler came to his senses and excitedly, like a newlywed, tried to understand what had happened to him, burning letters appeared on the wall of his bedroom. Some rulers called for the guards, others crossed themselves, remembering in horror “mene, takel, fares,” while others tried to put out the flames with a blanket. Despite these events, the flame did not go out, but only spread across the entire wall with a formidable warning: nothing can be done... Nothing can be done and with Dmitry Bykov’s New Russian Fairy Tales “How Putin Became President of the USA”, not a word can be deleted from them. As long as there is Russia, there is this genre. Written by Dmitry Bykov in the best traditions of Saltykov-Shchedrin - New Russian Fairy Tales unite together all the heroes of modern Russia and for the first time in the genre of political satire they talk about how: “Unity” fought to the death with “Fatherland”, Dorenko gnawed at Luzhkov, Kiselyov watered Yeltsin, conflicts raged around NTV, Gusinsky and Berezovsky fled, rumors arose and subsided about the transfer of the capital to St. Petersburg and about much, much more... We invite you to be the first to familiarize yourself with the brilliant collection of New Russian Fairy Tales “How Putin Became President USA" - a satirical chronicle of political and social life at the turn of the century.