[3][4][5][6][7] From 2003 to 2007, he was the editor-in-chief of the official website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (cprf.ru).

[8] Anatoliy Baranov is the author of the books “The Aroma of Rotting”, the novel-feuilleton “The Recent History of the City of Foolov”, “The Shadow Cabinet of the Opposition”.

[1] Also he is the author of works in the collection of stories Ticket to America together with Mikhail Popov, Andrei Gusev and others.

Anatoliy Baranov served as a prototype for one of the characters – Anatoliy Ovtsov, a journalist of the newspaper Moskovskij Bogomolets, which is very similar to the famous Moskovskij Komsomolets – in the novel Journalists by Sergei Aman.

Also Baranov served as a prototype for one of the main characters – Anatoliy Barinov, a politiсion from Moscow – in the thriller novel The World According to Novikoff by Andrei Gusev.