[13] In 1991, an article was published on the front page of Izvestia, in which Reznik provided data on the support of the State Emergency Committee by the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, General Mikhail Moiseyev, after which he was removed from the post of minister of defense by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

[16] He was published in many publications, including in the magazine “Ogonyok”[17][18] He wrote about organized crime, about connections with it among law enforcement officers, about corruption in the power structures of the Far East.

[37][38][39][40] As noted in the media at the time, Reznik is involved in charity work and thanks to this, “he understands well what now awaits seriously ill orphans in Russia.”.

After the United Russia primaries, held on 23 May 2016 in the Khabarovsk Krai, he announced numerous violations and called his fellow party members “swindlers.”.

[43][44][45] He lost to member of the Khabarovsk Oblast Duma Boris Gladkikh, taking third place in the Khabarovsk single-mandate constituency and sixth on the regional list, was not included in the party list for the State Duma elections and did not take part in the party congress, linking his defeat with voting against the “Dima Yakovlev law”.

[53][54][55][56][57] Reznik died suddenly on 27 January 2018 at the age of 77 from illness, according to some sources, while undergoing treatment in Düsseldorf, Germany.

[63][64][65] He was married to his wife, Yelena Nikolayevna (née Matveyeva), who is a journalist, and they have two children: son Andrei, an astrophysicist, businessman, and daughter Ksenia, a writer, translator.

[25][66][67] In 2015, he declared an income of 5 million rubles, 3 land plots, 2 residential buildings, 3 apartments, 3 garages, not counting the property of his wife, who was repeatedly included in the list of the richest wives of State Duma deputies from the Khabarovsk Krai, having an annual income over several years in the amount of about 10-20 million rubles.,.

[73][74][75] The attention of journalists was also attracted by the controversial purchase of the International Press House in Khabarovsk through a business structure owned by his wife.

[76][77][78][79][80] In this regard, he supported the bill on strengthening liability for libel, since “active slander campaigns are unfolding in many media.