They claim that president Vladimir Putin destroys democracy institutions and aims to establish an authoritarian police state in Russia.

One of this organization leaders, Oleg Kozlovsky has been arrested, and, according to several oppositional sites illegally sent as a private conscript to the Russian Army.

[3][4] Leadership of "Oborona" believed that Kozlovsky has been arrested for publishing in LiveJournal photos of governmental special forces officers who recently killed activist of Other Russia Yuriy Chervochkin.

In January 2007, Moscow Oborna held meetings with the leader of the United Civil Front, Garry Kasparov, and the chairman of the Federal Political Council of the Union of Right Forces, Nikita Belykh.

On 11 February 2007, the next general meeting of the Moscow Oborona was held, at which the task of preparing a non-violent democratic revolution was proclaimed since, as stated in the statement, regime change through elections had become impossible.

They demanded the return of live broadcasting to socio-political programs, the abolition of "black lists" and "temniki" (closed instructions for covering current events in media), and the privatization of all but one TV channel.

With several thousand St. Petersburg residents, Oborona activists marched from the site in front of the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall on Ligovsky Avenue to Dumskaya Square.

They managed to participate without clashes with the police or arrests: the city authorities allowed the "dissenters" to gather on Pushkinskaya Square, but the procession had to be abandoned.

On 20 September 2007, Oborona activists hung a 12-meter banner on the Taras Shevchenko embankment in Moscow, opposite the White House, saying, "We don't need vile power!"

On 7 October 2007, Oborona participated in the Dissenters' March organized at the initiative of the Russian People's Democratic Union on the anniversary of the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya and the birthday of Vladimir Putin.

On 22 October 2007, Oborona activists spoke out against amendments to the law "On the Referendum of the Russian Federation" introduced by United Russia deputies.

According to the action participants (they also referred to the point of view of the Constitutional Court and the Legal Department of the State Duma), these amendments violate the right of citizens to a referendum, making it possible to prohibit a plebiscite on almost any issue.

Activists of the movement unfurled a banner in front of the main entrance to the State Duma saying, "United Russians are freaks, the referendum is for the people!