Without exaggeration, the famous Russian writer Yuri Polyakov can be called the leading publicist of modern Russia. His articles, appearing on the pages of the central periodicals, have for more than thirty years aroused the fervent approval of some and the fierce rejection of others, but they do not leave anyone indifferent. The author vividly, argumentatively, figuratively, with striking irony writes about the "desovestification of the country", about the "virus of moral deficit", about the "state insufficiency", about the "silence of the Kremlin", about the "lost Victory", "about lezginka on the Frontal place", about "budget patriotism", about the "migratory elite", about the dominance of "soros" in our culture... Because of his article " The opposition died. Long live the opposition!"in October 1993, the authorities closed Komsomolskaya Pravda . Polyakov's journalism is a passionate, moving chronicle of our recent history. The 9th volume of the collected works includes articles from different years (1988-2020). For the first time, fans of the work of the "last Soviet writer" will be able to read them in the author's most acute version – without cuts, abbreviations and editorial edits.