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Na proti͡azhenii dvadt͡sati let zhurnalist Ilʹi͡a Azar reguli͡arno pisal o li͡udi͡akh, chʹe vozmushchenie sushchestvui͡ushchimi pori͡adkami i politikoĭ vlasteĭ vypleskivalosʹ na ulit͡sy i poroĭ zastavli͡alo chinovnikov idti na ustupki.V ėtoĭ knige sobrany reportazhi avtora s protestov na Triumfalʹnoĭ i Pushkinskoĭ ploshchadi͡akh v Moskve, na Maĭdane v Kieve, na ploshchadi Nezavisimosti v Minske i vo mnogikh drugikh gorodakh i stranakh. No chitatelʹ ne prosto uznaet o tom, kak prokhodil tot ili inoĭ miting, - kazhdyĭ si͡uzhet v knige soprovozhdaetsi͡a vospominanii͡ami i razmyshlenii͡ami Azara, kotoryĭ pytaetsi͡a poni͡atʹ, pochemu u grazhdanskogo obshchestva tak i ne poluchilosʹ ostanovitʹ prevrashchenie Rossii v avtoritarnui͡u stranu, poshedshui͡u na soseda voĭnoĭ.Ilʹi͡a Azar - rossiĭskiĭ zhurnalist, byvshiĭ spet͡skor "Novoĭ gazety", "Meduzy" i "Lenty.ru". Posledni͡ui͡u v 2014 godu razgromil Kremlʹ - iz-za reportazheĭ Azara s kievskogo Maĭdana. Avtor ne tolʹko osveshchal protestnye akt͡sii, no posle izbranii͡a v Moskve munit͡sipalʹnym deputatom sam v 2019-2020 godakh organizovyval pikety i mitingi v Moskve, za chto provel 25 sutok pod arestom. V 2025 godu Azar byl vkli͡uchen Mini͡ustom v reestr "inostrannykh agentov" i zaochno prigovoren k chetyrem godam kolonii za organizat͡sii͡u dei͡atelʹnosti "nezhelatelʹnoĭ organizat͡sii". Zhivet v ėmigrat͡sii, prodolzhaet osveshchatʹ protesty za rubezhom.

For twenty years, journalist Ilya Azar has regularly written about people whose outrage at the existing rules and policies of the authorities has spilled onto the streets and sometimes forced officials to make concessions.This book contains the author's reports from the protests on Triumfalnaya and Pushkinskaya Squares in Moscow, on the Maidan in Kiev, on Independence Square in Minsk and in many other cities and countries. But the reader doesn't just learn about how a particular rally took place, each story in the book is accompanied by memories and reflections of Azar, who is trying to understand why civil society has failed to stop Russia's transformation into an authoritarian country that went to war with its neighbor.Ilya Azar is a Russian journalist, former special correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, Medusa and <url>. The latter was defeated by the Kremlin in 2014 because of Azar's reports from Kiev's Maidan. The author not only covered protest actions, but after being elected a municipal deputy in Moscow, he organized pickets and rallies in Moscow in 2019-2020, for which he spent 25 days under arrest. In 2025, Azar was included in the register of "foreign agents" by the Ministry of Justice and sentenced in absentia to four years in a penal colony for organizing the activities of an "undesirable organization." He lives in exile and continues to cover protests abroad.