[2] To achieve this goal, it was planned to attract from 20 to 50 thousand people to the ranks of the AVN and collect 2 million votes, sufficient to hold a national referendum.

According to the draft, during each regular election, each voter will receive an additional ballot with options for the verdict to the president or the State Duma who have completed their term.

The draft verdict contains three options for assessing the results of the work of the replaced authority: "Worthy of encouragement", "Without consequences" and "Deserves punishment".

Если большинство избирателей выберет первый вариант, то представитель власти объявляется героем и ему отдаются соответствующие почести, во втором случае — к нему ничего не предпринимается, а в третьем — бывший президент или все депутаты ФС РФ отбывает тюремное заключение, равное сроку их пребывания у власти.

According to the results of the vote held on October 22–24, 2008 within the framework of the National Assembly, the majority of the non-systemic opposition supported this bill (for - 182, against - 63, abstained - 35).

Famous patriotic and opposition figures also expressed support for the project: Oleg Shenin; Alfrēds Rubiks; Maxim Kalashnikov; Joseph Stalin's great-grandson Yakov Dzhugashvili; Sergey Kara-Murza; Andrei Parshev; Boris Mironov; presenters of the Internet program "Actually" Alexander Krasnov and Valery Smirnov; former State Duma deputy Andrey Savelyev and others.

[1] The Army of the People's Will was a militarized organization in name only, its methods of work were peaceful propaganda and agitation within the framework of the current legislation.

Members of the organization took part in rallies and pickets, where they distributed leaflets and newspapers, spoke at various meetings, announced their ideas on Internet resources, conducted public opinion polls in order to clarify the attitude of citizens to the bill.

Текущей задачей АВН считала популяризацию своих идей в самых широких массах населения и расширение собственных рядов до определённой численности, с тем, чтобы впоследствии образовать инициативную группу для организации референдума и обеспечить успех его проведения.

In addition to Moscow, the movement had branches in the following cities: Volgograd, Vologda, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kostroma, Krasnoyarsk, Kursk, Kurgan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novokuznetsk, Norilsk, Omsk, Orsk, Perm, Ryazan, Samara, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Tula, Tyumen, Ufa, Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Yaroslavl.

Later AVN held a number of other public events,[7] and also participated in various political actions, including - according to press reports - in St. Petersburg,[8] Tatarstan.

On July 30, 2007, in Moscow, AVN activists, together with other political associations, held a sanctioned picket near the building of the Government of the Russian Federation in protest against the raider seizures of enterprises of the military-industrial complex.

Representatives of the Army of the People's Will were holding a portrait of Vladimir Vysotsky in the role of Gleb Zheglov and a slogan with the inscription: "A thief should be in prison, not in the Kremlin.

По замечанию «Информационно-аналитического центра СОВА», члены организации в причастности к насильственным действиям замечены не были.

[1] By order of AVN, documentaries and publicistic films and video clips were shot, which were distributed on the Internet in blogs, social networks, as well as through the specialized online store “Delokrat.

The meeting of the Moscow City Court on Tuesday October 19, 2010 was held in the presence of several dozen participants (fighters) of the AVN, who filed petitions to involve them in the case as third parties.

[1] AVN leader Yuri Mukhin insisted that the movement is of an all-Russian nature and has 56 branches in Russia and abroad, and therefore the case should be considered in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

The report of the prosecutor's office says: "During the inspection, evidence was collected that the goals and actions of this association are aimed at carrying out extremist activities that pose a threat of harm to individuals, health of citizens, security, society and the state.".

AVN leader Yuri Mukhin said at a court hearing that the persecution of his organization is "revenge for the fact that we exposed the groups that run the country.".

According to analysts from the SOVA Information and Analytical Center, there is no extremism in the idea of a referendum on any issue, so the legality of the Moscow City Court's decision seems questionable.

On December 11, 2011, the IGPR "ZOV" supported the nomination of Boris Sergeevich Mironov as a presidential candidate, who adopted the draft Law "On the responsibility of the authorities" in his program.

The joining of the former AVN members to the IGPR ZOV did not go unnoticed: in July 2015, the court authorized the arrest of RBC employee Alexander Sokolov, former editor of the Duel newspaper Yuri Mukhin and his colleague Valery Parfyonov in the case of extremism (later - Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Barabash).