Founder and former leader of Great Fatherland Party (Russian: Партия Великое Отечество, romanized: Partiya Velikoye Otechestvo) and its subsidiary social NGO, Union of Russian Citizens (Russian: Профсоюз Граждан России, romanized: Profsoyuz Grazhdan Rossii).

He frequently appears as an economics expert in documentaries, for example in "Parvus of the Revolution," "Storm of the Winter Palace Refutation."

But I have always said and will continue to say that my books are related to conspirology in the same way as astronomy is related to astrology.Starikov is the leader of several political organizations, including the Union of Russian Citizens (Russian: Профсоюз Граждан России, romanized: Profsoyuz Grazhdan Rossii), founded on 25 April 2011, and the conservative Great Fatherland Party (Russian: Партия Великое Отечество, romanized: Partiya Velikoye Otechestvo), registered on 10 April, 2013.

He has championed a revisionist view of Joseph Stalin, portraying him as an effective leader and bulwark against western expansion.

On 4 October 2022 Starikov in his Twitter wrote: "I urge once and for all to destroy the entire infrastructure of Nazi Ukraine.