[6] In 2011, while being the head of the policy department and deputy editor in chief, resigned due to disagreements between him and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

Two weeks before the 2011 Russian legislative election, the newspaper received an order to place an advertisement for the ruling political party United Russia, and Badanin was against it, because the advertisement required the newspaper to remove existing banners of the Movement for Defence of Voters' Rights "Golos" and the "Violations map" project, which tracked violations in the elections and in the voting results.

[10] According to the Kommersant newspaper, Badanin left because of disagreements with the then general director of the publishing house Axel Springer Russia.

[11] On 14 October 2013, it became known that Badanin was appointed executive director of the Internet Projects Service of the Interfax news agency.

[13] Badanin was one of the authors of the RBK's investigation about one of the daughters of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Katerina Tikhonova, and her then husband Kirill Shamalov.