Iosif Diskin, co-chairman of the Council on National Security, professor of economics, who has worked with the government for more then twenty years of his life from Gorbachev to Putin. He is one of the leading ideologue of the modernization project which has practically died away in Russia. This book is about the last chance Russia has in this direction. Also available by the author: Proryv: Kak Nam Modernizirovat" Rossiiu (2008); Krizis... i Vse zhe Modernizatsiia! (2009).