Akh, kak khochetsia zhit' ... v Kremle - Zen'kovich Nikolai

A new book by the famous Russian historian, publicist and chronicler of the formation of the new Russian statehood Nikolai Senkovich covers the tumultuous events of 1996, which entered the modern history as the beginning of the end of the Yeltsin era.

Readers will learn the truth about Boris Yeltsin's victory in the 1996 presidential election. On whether his main rival Gennady Syuganov won the elections in the first round, but gave victory to Yeltsin. The circumstances of the state's denunciation of the 1991 Bialowieza Accords on the dissolution of the USSR, the history of the scandalous removal of a box from under a xerox with 500,000 dollars and the subsequent resignation of Korzhakov, Barsukov and others are presented in a new way.

The rise and fall of General Lebed, the rise of Chubais and the death of Dudayev, the capture by the militants of Grozny in 1996 and the conclusion of the Khasavyurt peace, the formation of the Community of Belarus and Russia, read about all these and many other events that marked themselves truly a fateful milestone in the country's history.