From mid-2013, Kucherena has represented former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's interests in the Russian Federation.

[1] In 2013, according to Izvestia, he was known as a person who spoke in favour of the banning of anonymizer software: advocating the prosecution of its development, distribution and usage by including it in the "malware" software category (a view which contradicts the terminology used in the industry).

Threatened by his government and waiting for a decision on his request for Russian asylum, Kold spends three weeks in the transit area of the Moscow airport.

Stone said, "Anatoly has written a 'grand inquisitor'-style Russian novel weighing the soul of his fictional whistleblower against the gravity of a 1984 tyranny that has achieved global proportions.

"[3] The book, the first in a "psychological-political thriller trilogy," was released on 3 March 2015 in Russian and 29 January 2017 in English.