[3][5][6] From 2006 to 2008, he worked as a freelance employee of the radio station Govorit Moskva [ru], where he hosted the weekly program Очная ставка.

[3] In July 2009, Dobrokhotov announced his intention to run in elections to the Moscow City Duma[7] in a single-mandate constituency number 5.

[8] In January 2010, he began working as a researcher at the State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN), where he taught political science.

[19] He was nominated together with Sergei Davidis, Anna Karetnikova, Pyotr Tsarkov, Maria Baronova and eight other candidates from the "Party of December 5"[20] in the elections [ru] to the Russian Opposition Coordination Council,[21] which took place in October 2012.

In January 2013, Dobrokhotov became the author of the Come-Out Week project dedicated to the problems of the LGBT community.

"[24] On 30 September 2021, the Federal Security Service (FSB) raided Dobrokhotov's home, where his wife lived, and his parents’ apartment in Moscow after he allegedly crossed the border illegally and has been placed on a wanted list.

Dobrokhotov was inspired by the 1989 Baltic Way campaign and organized a bright flash mob Big White Ring.

[35] On the birthday of Putin on October 7, 2012, he came with a rake to the rally "Let's take grandfather to retire" in Moscow; he was detained by the police.

[36] A year earlier, he was detained at an action by the pro-government movement Nashi, dedicated to another birthday of Putin.