The number of specialists on the Chechen issue is growing in Russia and abroad every day. Aleksandr Mikhailov, a general in the FSB, is one of the best informed people on this issue. He traces the origins of the issue, when it could be cured with relative ease, to the present, when it has become Moloch, eating people on both sides of the conflict. The book contains information from the Russian Federal Security Service archive about the key people in this conflict, main official documents and operations.