[3] The organization, later renamed "Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast", gained its main popularity thanks to various outrageous statements and provocative actions.
[4] In 2008 he wrote an open letter to Ukrainian-born actress Olga Kurylenko, who played a Bolivian agent in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.
[10][11][12] In 2021, The Moscow Times described Malinkovich as "a burly, shaven-headed man who wears a golden pin in the shape of an AK-47 assault rifle in his red tie.
[14][15] On 18 March 2022, an extraordinary congress of the Communists of Russia voted to appoint Malinkovich its Chairman after ousting its former leader Maxim Suraykin for his alleged connections with "unfriendly countries", fraud, and "bourgeois way of life".
[1] In November 2022, Malinkovich accused musician Andrey Razin from the pop music group Laskovyi Mai (Tender May) of treason for selling the rights to its songs to an American company.
[19][20][21] Malinkovich promised a program like Stalin's ten blows, against United States capitalism and imperialism, and victory in Russia's war against Ukraine.