"A Russian political, public, and military figure, writer, language and literature scholar, opinion columnist, propagandist, military man.

In September 2014, he visited the zone of armed conflict in the east of Ukraine as a war correspondent supporting the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. His notes were published by a number of media, for example, the KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA newspaper and the socio-political online publication SVOBODNAYA PRESSA (the editor-in-chief since 2012).

Since December 2015, an adviser to the Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Aleksandr Zakharchenko.

Since October 5, 2016, a member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

From October 2016 to July 2018, the deputy commander of the special forces battalion for military personnel issues, the DNR army, in November 2016, promoted to the rank of major.

On December 4, 2018, was appointed deputy artistic director of the Maksym Gorkiy Moscow Art Theater.

Since 2019, a member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Commission on Law Order and Military Discipline.

On August 14, 2023, appointed to the position of deputy commander of the special purpose regiment OPLOT of the National Guard Forces of Russia for military and political issues, and the same year he was promoted to the lieutenant colonel."