[16][17][18] Taraskin, also known as "Fire God Taraskin"[19] and "Owner of the Universe", said that he is a "citizen of the USSR, a descendant of subjects of the Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and other pre-existing subjects of law in our country Russia (Rus', Tartaria, Borea, Scythia, and so on), a descendant of the noble breed of Slavs, who is covered by the mantle of Alexander Filippovich, Tsar of Macedon, Sovereign of the Monarchy".
[21] Roman Silantyev said that Taraskin and his supporters sold permits for the sale of alcoholic beverages for half a million "occupation rubles" which, after seizing power, would be worth 560 tons of gold.
According to Silantyev, "In addition to trolling judges and law enforcement officers, [movement adherents] create serious problems for power engineers, gas workers and utilities, refusing to pay for their services ... in the Trade Union of the USSR group, you can easily buy a 'Soviet' trade union card and for 200 rubles of monthly contributions to its card, [and] feel free from many burdensome expenses ... only until the forced shutdown of light and heat".
"[This quote needs a citation] Taraskin's supporters created an online store in Barnaul, and collected donations in Kursk to fight "myths" about HIV.
[20] Movement participants later created dozens of groups, most with a quasi-religious and neo-pagan focus and ideas borrowed from Ancient Russian Church of Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings founder and head Alexander Khinevich and Konstantin Petrov's Conceptual Party "Unity".
[20] On November 23, 2015, Torgunakov and Olga Selyutina went to the Novosibirsk police to convey "the last orders of the authorities of the RSFSR" and was committed to a psychiatric hospital with a diagnosis of paranoia.
[22] The "government of the USSR" (Shefantsov-Radist) group is headed by "general radnik of the Cossacks of Russia" A. Radist, who demands that the Russian Orthodox Church's Yekaterinburg Diocese grant him the freedom to propagandize.
[23] A Yekaterinburg resident told Fourth Channel[clarification needed] TV journalists about "swindlers" who nearly succeeded in forcing her elderly father to re-register her apartment, garage and car with them.
A resident of Chelyabinsk told OTV channel reporters that a relative influenced by Taraskin's supporters gave the "government of the USSR" "several tens of thousands of rubles."
Ten Nizhny Tagil residents petitioned the court in April 2017 to recognize them as citizens of the USSR and filed claims against the city's Ministry of Internal Affairs, which refused to return their Soviet passports.
Zlokazov had sent letters at the end of February 2016 to the commanders of a number of military units calling for the organization of "self-defense squads"; if they refused, he threatened to "eliminate them as enemies of the USSR."
[19][30] In May 2020, a fraud case was opened in North Ossetia against a group of people who called themselves the "Supreme Soviet of the Ossetian ASSR" and sold "USSR passports" with the promise that the documents would exempt purchasers from taxes and utility bills.
According to the investigation, they conducted activities of the banned Union of Slavic Forces of Russia, held meetings and sold "inserts confirming citizenship in the USSR."
[33] In September of that year, police, National Guard and Centre E in Krasnodar prevented an assassination attempt on the head of the Kuban branch of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia by the "Supreme Court of the USSR".