The rhetorical question put by A. Tsipko in the title of the book is an eternal Russian question. It is asked by patriots who feel sorry for Russia after the next 'Russian disaster'. Why did the Russians themselves, with their own hands, destroy their Holy Orthodox Russia, spilling rivers of their own blood? - This question was asked by I. Bunin, M. Gorky, etc. during the Civil war. Russian Russian victims of the Gulag were treated with astonishing brutality by the Russians. - This question is asked by A. Solzhenitsyn in the work "GULAG Archipelago".Russian Russian spring 2014 gives a new meaning to these eternal Russian questions. If only not the realization that thousands of 'volunteers' and former miners and tractor drivers of the Donbass died in the name of the impossible-in the name of the dream of the revival of Novorossiya...Is there any sense at all 'in the Russian great content', which has never given any benefits to the Russian person, except 'poverty and life in a besieged fortress'? - These and other difficult questions the author asked himself in this book. But whether he found the answers is up to readers to judge...