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Hostage: History of Yukos Manager - memoirs of Vladimir Pereverzin, former manager of Yukos, one of the leaders of the Cypriot subsidiaries of this company, convicted in March 2007 in the framework of the "Yukos case" under part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (appropriation or embezzlement committed by an organized group or in an especially large amount) and part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (legalization of funds acquired by criminal means). He spent seven years and two months in prisons and camps.

Background
The word “hostage” in the title of the book is a term defining the defendants in the Yukos case. In this sense, one of the first (2008) it was used by Vera Vasilyeva, the author of a number of books about Alexei Pichugin:

I believe that all the prisoners of the Yukos case, all those arrested after Mikhail Khodorkovsky, are obviously hostages. Because, as Vasily Aleksanyan stated, as other inmates in the same case, for example, Alexey Pichugin, have stated, they are required to testify very concretely. And in exchange for these testimony, stipulating the leadership of Yukos, promise freedom, promise all sorts of concessions, amnesty.

Later, the term “hostage” was used by other well-known persons, such as M. Khodorkovsky:

State prosecutors have unequivocally acted as Somali pirates, declaring me and possibly others hostage to the actions of foreign management and numerous foreign Yukos shareholders in international courts. Since then, like others, I am not the head of Yukos, not a shareholder, but just a hostage. But I won’t argue, lie, or perjure myself, and fortunately, little depends on me. Do whatever you want to me.

The book was conceived by the author during his trial. He managed to keep separate diary entries from places of detention. The final version of the text was formed from May 2012 to April 2013. It was not easy, but it was perceived by Vladimir Pereverzin as a personal duty to convince everyone that in our country any ordinary citizen can easily become a hero of such a story.

Table of contents
The book begins with a Preface written by Olga Romanova. Giving a brief description of the author and the situation in Russia with political prisoners, she also briefly formulates her attitude to the work of V. Pereverzin: This is the best I have ever read about prison. I mean, the will.

The main text of the book consists of 57 chapters:

Chapter 1 Liberation
Chapter 2 Getting started
Chapter 3 Arrest
Chapter 4 Hello, Boot!
Chapter 5 Prison universities
Chapter 6 Sailor's Silence
Chapter 7 Prison in prison
Chapter 8 The investigation continues
Chapter 9 Acquaintance with business
Chapter 10 The Court begins
Chapter 11 The Court continues
Chapter 12 Summer holidays
Chapter 13 The meeting continues!
Chapter 14 New Year's gift
Chapter 15 The Last Hope
Chapter 16 Stage
Chapter 17 Welcome to Melehovo
Chapter 18: Humiliated and Humiliated
Chapter 19 Shopping.

Chapter 20 Acquaintance with Prison Medicine
Chapter 21 DL