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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 for reporting sharply critical of the federal forces from Grozny, he was arrested by the Russian special services. This case was under the personal control of Vladimir Putin, who publicly called him a traitor. After the court found Babitsky guilty, he left for 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 in support of Russian actions in Crimea and honest coverage of war crimes by the Ukrainian army. in Donbass. IN THE NEW BOOK, the famous journalist not only for the first time frankly told the story of his transformation from an anti-Russian liberal into a Russian patriot and finding inner harmony, about the current attitude towards Putin, the situation in Chechnya, the Russian liberal public and journalism, freedom of speech in the West, but also about what can Russians expect in relations with the US and Europe, and is Russia's cultural code itself hostile to Western self-consciousness?