How I Wrote the Constitution of the Yeltsin and Putin Eras

This book opens the series "The '90s: Personalities in History". Its author is a state advisor on legal policy, deputy prime minister and minister of the Russian government in the 1990s, a parliament member of four convocations, the founder of the Party of Russian Unity and Accord, a distinguished lawyer of Russia, and professor Sergey Shakray. The memoirs cover not only the '90s - the time of the author's political rise, but also many events that occurred before and after this pivotal decade in the country's history. Shakray, as a lawyer, is professionally attentive to facts. However, his book is not a dry enumeration of names-dates-events, but rather memories filled with drama and passions, infused with the spirit of that time. The author writes candidly about his political career, honestly assesses circumstances and his own actions, trying to draw lessons from the past for the future. Sergey Shakray's memoirs are populated with many vivid personalities: Boris Yeltsin, Anatoly Sobchak, Sergey Alekseev, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Yevgeny Primakov, Yuri Luzhkov, Mikhail Mishustin, Jacques Chirac, Prince Charles, and many other contemporaries appear on the pages not as characters of formal portraits, but as real people with their own virtues and flaws. Writing memoirs about the "hot" '90s is a challenging task. The author understands this and counts on the reader who is ready to see not a black-and-white picture, but a multicolored and three-dimensional reality of the recent history of his country.