January 15, 2015, at the press conference "Challenges of our time: revolutions, illegal actions; how to protect your country from collapse", the head of the biker club Night Wolves Alexander Zaldostanov, member of the Federation Council Dmitry Sablin and mixed martial arts fighter Julia Berezikova initiated the creation of the Russian movement "Anti-Maidan", the purpose of which is to "counter illegal attempts to overthrow the current government in the manner of Ukrainian Euromaidan".

The event was attended by Doctor of Political Sciences, Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts of the RUDN University, Professor Georgy Filimonov, American journalist and analyst Andrew Korybko, lecturer at the Department of Applied Analysis and International Issues at MGIMO, an expert in branding and positioning Alexander Stikhin, as well as co-chairman of the movement "Anti-Maidan" Nikolai Starikov[7] Since 2015, the National Liberation Movement of the deputy from United Russia Yevgeny Fyodorov[8] and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia have collaborated with Anti-Maidan.

[15] The goals of the movement were called: In July 2015, members of Anti-Maidan held a series of pickets against the participation in regional elections of parties representing non-systemic opposition.

[21] The movement supported the special educational program "Scenarios of the Future of Russia", created by the Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts of the RUDN University.

Under the guise of scientific and educational lectures “on countering destructive political forces”, representatives of the institute, during their visits to more than 40 Moscow and a dozen regional universities, assessed the “protest potential” of students and teachers.