[1] Six criminal extremism cases were open against him for writing poetry with criticism of Josef Stalin and other Soviet leadership during World War II and Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
[2] Byvshev taught German at a secondary school in the town of Kromy and was writing poetry[3] In some of his published poems, such as "To Ukrainian patriots", he denounced the Annexation of Crimea and called Ukrainians to resist.
In 2015, he was accused for "incitement to hatred and enmity"[6] and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service.
[3] The SOVA Center, a Moscow-based non-profit organization that monitors human rights, described the local media campaign against Byvshev as reminiscent of a Stalinist campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans".
After a consensus of editors, the Russian Language Wikipedia deleted its article about him.