Resigned due to the fact that the Yabloko party decided to go into opposition to Governor Vladimir Yakovlev.

[4] Reznik accused her of not being independent and oppositional, imitating political struggle, and also being controlled by the Kremlin.

On May 1, 2019, Maxim Reznik was detained by police during a May Day procession along Nevsky Prospekt at the head of a column carrying a banner "Petersburg against United Russia".

[9] On March 17, 2012, by the decision of the Bureau, the activities of the governing bodies of the St. Petersburg Yabloko, including the chairman of the organization, Maxim Reznik, were suspended.

On May 25, 2012 a member of the St. Petersburg branch of the party, Grigory Yavlinsky's assistant in the Legislative Assembly, Ksenia Vakhrusheva, publicly accused Maxim Reznik of supporting fraud in the vote count in the elections of deputies of the Legislative Assembly.

[12][13] He was accused of supporting close friends who received fake mandates: Olga Galkina and Vyacheslav Notyag.

[16] On March 23, 2021 Reznik moved to a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg with deputies from Yabloko and announced his disagreements with the head of the Party of Growth faction Oksana Dmitrieva.

I was just looking for a reason: our political paths diverged from the moment Dmitrieva supported Alexander Beglov, and I immediately said that he was not suitable for St. Petersburg.

And thirdly, the nomination of the Sukhodolsky candidates, who contribute to the victory of United Russia in the districts, the destruction of the policy that seems right to me – the joint struggle against United Russia ...Later, a deputy from Yabloko Boris Vishnevsky said that Yabloko was ready to nominate Reznik in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St.

[19] In September 2022 Reznik announced on his social networks that he had left the Russian Federation for an indefinite period.

[20] He became the author of the action "Noon Against Putin" – a peaceful protest action scheduled for March 17, 2024, which consists in the fact that citizens of Russia who do not support the policy of Vladimir Putin will come to the polling stations en masse on the last day of the presidential elections at 12 noon.