[3] In different periods of its existence, the organization had a completely polar ideology based on the principles of direct democracy with a clearly expressed anti-communism.

[4] However, despite this, on October 26, 2017, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court recognized the MOD "Artpodgotovka" as extremist and banned its activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.

At the end of 2011, Vyacheslav Maltsev made a decision to create a YouTube channel "ARTPODGOTOVKA", on which on weekdays at 21.00 Moscow time the political program "Bad News" was aired in a live format.

Every day it goes live with an hour and a half program, which is watched by 100-150 thousand people, which is comparable in audience with a federal radio station.

In April 2016, Maltsev announced his candidacy for the primaries of the democratic party PARNAS, where he took 1st place, with a margin of several thousand votes.

He opened his mouth - and such a fetid cloaca poured on us all ... About the Jewish mafia, the Masonic conspiracy, about the fact that Vladimir Kara-Murza was poisoned not for political reasons, but for everyday life ...

I'm surprised that a man in the spirit of Zhirinovsky is being imposed on us».In the summer of 2016, a team began to form around Maltsev, volunteers appeared in the regions.

[8][9] The audience of Maltsev's YouTube channel increased sharply after he stated the following on television:«The boyars are to blame, and the tsar is wonderful.

[10][11]Immediately after the resonant statements of the leader of "Artpodgotovka" on Russian television, both representatives of the opposition movements and ardent guardians began to criticize him.

For example, the leader of the biker club "Night Wolves" Alexander "Ths Surgeon" Zaldostanov said the following about the candidate for the State Duma:Of course, we will ask him for this, for such things we have to ask.

After the failure of the PARNAS in the elections to the State Duma, on September 19, Mark Galperin and Ivan Beletsky founded the New Opposition movement, which was later joined by Vyacheslav Maltsev.

[12] As of April 1, 2017, all walks take place in more than 110 cities of the Russian Federation Around the same time, according to a source close to the leadership of the movement, provocateurs were introduced into Artpodgotovka, as well as snitches from the ranks of the activists.

Pavel Chikov, a lawyer and head of the international human rights group Agora, characterizes this movement as follows:"The political program" Artpodgotovka "consists of 22 points and smacks of open populism.

This potentially protest electorate, blaming the corrupt officials, immigrants from Central Asia, Jews for their own failures, was not embraced by any non-systemic opposition movement.

During 2017, his supporters began to actively "stick" to Navalny's headquarters created throughout the country, and they were noticeable around the regional branches of Open Russia.

[13]In February 2018, the Federal Security Service announced the prevention of a number of high-profile terrorist attacks throughout Russia, as well as the detention of members of the "Network" group.

However, as it turned out later, the "Network" cell "5/11" got its name not because of its connection with the "Artpodgotovka" MOD and the so-called "Revolution 5/11/17", but because its members wore clothes of the brand of the same name.

From the very morning on November 5, 2017, the central streets of the capital were filled with paddy wagons accompanied by riot police officers.

The leader of the MOD "Artpodgotovka", in an interview with Meduza's correspondent, commented on the incident as follows:«The regime has shown its fascist essence.

Since November, mass detentions of Maltsev's supporters began throughout the country; in total, more than 30 criminal cases have been opened in Russia against the participants in the movement.

On November 2, a search was carried out in the apartment of Sergei Ryzhov, a Saratov supporter, and 200 grams of TNT and 5 Molotov cocktails were found.

On November 3, 2017, at the request of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation dated October 31, 2017, numerous communities of Vyacheslav's supporters and participants in Artpodgotovka were blocked on the VKontakte social network.

[21] Also on November 3, in Moscow, the FSB, together with Centre E detained the participants of the "Artpodgotovka", cold weapons and Molotov cocktails were seized.

[22][23] Vyacheslav Maltsev called the detention of his supporters a "dirty provocation": There is no organization, there is the Artpodgotovka channel, in which I broadcast every evening.

[24] According to the official position of law enforcement agencies, the "Artpodgotovka" movement was preparing an armed uprising and a violent seizure of power.

[26]Political scientist Ivan Preobrazhensky said about the arrests of members of the movement:«It should be understood that the investigative bodies and special services carried out a successful operation and are now preparing a new large-scale trial for the March presidential elections.

Criminal cases are now being massively fabricated against the activists of "Artpodgotovka", moreover, they are doing it all over the country and using rather "clumsy" methods: they throw in TNT, some kind of explosive, Molotov cocktails.