Roman Konoplev was born on September 4, 1973 in Bryansk Oblast, Russian SFSR to the family of a Soviet engineers.

Political consequences of military conflict in Moldova, as well as human rights violations in the republics of the former Soviet Union, were a sort of arguments for Konoplev to become member of the opposition to Boris Eltsin.

He left the House of Councils together with other defenders on the day of the attack on October 4, 1993 at 5 p.m.[6] Konoplev was one of the leaders of the National Bolshevik Party(1997—2003).

Hid sketch book "Norwegian papers", first published in Russia, was later reprinted by several foreign media.

Roman Konoplev was the owner and editor of news agency "DNIESTER" (2009-2017),[19][20][21][22][23][24] strategist, and political adviser.