The memoir book of the famous journalist and human rights activist, former political prisoner Sergei Ivanovich Grigoryants tells about the beginning of perestroika, about the publication of "Glasnost" — one of the first uncensored magazines in the USSR, about the attempts to resist the KGB and the most important initiative of the "Glasnost " foundation - the creation of an International tribunal for war Crimes in Chechnya. The book contains a deep analysis of the state of society at the turn of the 1980s-1990s and a kind of summing up of the human rights movement in Russia.