[1] In 2006 he led an expedition of the PSU on excavations in Chersonesos on the shore of the Black Sea.

[4] From 2012 to 2014, Kolpakov lived in Moscow and was the head of the special correspondents department in the Lenta.ru online media.

[1] In October 2014 he moved to Riga, Latvia to become the deputy editor-in-chief of the media project Meduza.

[7] In October 20 2018, Kolpakov was accused to have groped the wife of a colleague at a party in honour of the publication's birthday.

[9] At the beginning of 2019, it became known that, despite the dismissal, Kolpakov continues to cooperate with the editorial office and may soon officially return to a leadership position (presumably as a publisher).