He was also a member of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests, which existed between 2009 and 2012.

[2] In July 2008 he participated in an international relations forum entitled "The State of Democracy in the World and the Western Efforts to Promote It: Why Has Progress Stopped?

[4] Markov comments on many other foreign-policy questions, attributing the conflict in South Ossetia to a plot by Dick Cheney to further the interests of John McCain against Barack Obama in the US presidential elections.

[8] In 2007, having been accused of being behind cyberattacks on Estonian government's systems, Markov was declared persona non grata in Estonia and in 2008 he was also expelled from Ukraine.

Instead he returned to the ivory tower, as assistant professor of Public Policy department of Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University, and professor of the Faculty of Political Science at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (aka MGIMO), director of the Institute of Political Studies.

Markov has criticized historians from states formerly under Soviet occupation, claiming they distort the historical record with the documentation of events like the Katyn massacre.

"[19] In late August 2023, after the Wagner rebellion ended limply and Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in uncertain circumstances, Markov went on UK radio and said that to doubt the sincerity of Putin's condolences was in poor taste.

[20] In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet, released 8 June 2014, Markov said that if Russia felt "backed into a corner" by Sweden and Finland joining NATO, combined with what he perceived as "Russophobia" from certain European countries, it could start World War III.

[23] Markov has supported the prosecution and conviction of three members of Pussy Riot, a group which he sees as part of a foreign conspiracy against Russia.

In August 2012, he wrote in an editorial that: "Pussy Riot's act inside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is not the stupidity of young girls, but part of the global conspiracy against Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church.

"[28] Markov claimed in Aleksandr Dugin's newspaper Eurasia Daily that there is "a huge ethnic bias" within the State TV's presenter Vladimir Solovyov's propaganda media pool.

Markov criticized that two ethnic minorities, Jews and Armenians, have had been too influential when discussing about the position of "Great Russia" towards Israel and Armenia.