[4] Gafurov worked as the Director of the Department of Finance, Credit, Insurance, and Foreign Trade within the Ministry of State Property under Prime Minister Yevgeniy Primakov.
In 2011, he assumed the role of Deputy Chief Editor for economic issues for the monthly journal VVP (Gross Domestic Product),[5] a publication known for its active support of Vladimir Putin.
"[citation needed] In the late 1990s, Gafurov wrote several articles for the journal Рынок ценных бумаг (Securities market), building on the Ergodic approach to equity research.
Gafurov disapproves of NATO, neocolonialism, and neo-racism and is critical of the European Union's parasitic capitalist policies in Africa and Europe, claiming that "capital is indifferent to everything except its profit.
[18] Gafurov was among the most prominent supporters of President Gaddafi during the First Libyan Civil War in 2011[citation needed] due to his perception that the war was a "tribal reaction" to Gaddafi's attempts to modernise Libya;[19][20][21][22] the fact that insurgents were headed by former Minister of Justice Mustafa Abdul Jalil;[citation needed] and the economic interests of Russia's oil and gas sector.
[citation needed] The same year, he suggested that to settle the Syrian crisis, the Russian Foreign Policy should garner support from Catholic American lobbyists.
[citation needed] In February 2014, following the coup d'état, Gafurov outlined what he believed should be the principles of Ukraine: removal of the "fascist self-proclaimed government" in Kyiv, its "IMF-inspired economic program," and Crimean annexation by Russia; and federalisation of Ukraine so its regions could self-determine whether they wanted to integrate into Europe, join a free-trade zone with the Eurasian Customs Union, or declare independence from both.
to suspect him of secretly organising the transfer of refugees, mainly members of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Borotba and other leftist organizations, who were persecuted and tortured during the Revolution of Dignity, to Russia.
Gafurov accused the United States of hypocrisy over nuclear non-proliferation, claiming they were the only nation to ever drop atomic bombs on cities.
[citation needed] In October 2020, he claimed internationalism is the only way to achieve a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan,[27] a view met with criticism from both Armenian and Azerbaijani nationalists.
[citation needed] Gafurov opposes the concept of intellectual property, claiming that it damages the common good and that most modern culture is sponsored by the state and philanthropy anyway.
[29] Gafurov has been accused of plagiarising short news articles from Greek, Indian, and Bengali radical Marxist sources several times.
"[citation needed] Gafurov uses a number of pen names, including Elbrus Byudzhetnikov (Эльбрус Бюджетников), Sofya Antiokhiyskaya (Софья Антиохийская), and Lucretia and Brunhilda Rabinowitz (Лукреция и Брунгильда Рабиновитц).
Among the topics Gafurov writes about are economics, security markets in Arabic countries, and what he considered "problems" in Isma'ilism, Druzism, Alawism, Shīʿism, and Sunnism.