[4] He is currently a stern critic of the Russian government and the Ukraine invasion, so on May 22, 2023, the Russian Ministry of the Interior issued an arrest warrant against Panin for having celebrated the Crimean Bridge explosion on social media.

[6][7][8] In June 2013, police opened a criminal case against Panin for "intentional destruction of other people's property" due to the debauchery that he initiated in a bar in Tuapse.

[9] The same year in August, Ukrainian police opened a criminal case against Panin for "Intentional infliction of minor bodily injury".

The media reported that he had a car accident in Crimea.

Shortly after the accident, he made a series of insulting statements about Ukraine and the Crimean Tatars and hit a local resident.