Albert Likhanov was a journalist for various Russian newspapers, from Siberia to Moscow. Committed to the cause of orphans, he represented the USSR at international conferences and participated in the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. A prolific writer, he is the author of a work that has sold millions of copies and has been adapted several times for the cinema. For this book, he received the exclusive testimony of an oligarch whose criminal beginnings he anonymously reveals.
