8, after which Maltsev worked as a statistician in the Kirov district Committee of the Komsomol and enrolled in the evening department of the Saratov State Law Academy.

In November 2003, Vyacheslav Maltsev, together with the former secretary of the Regional Security Council Alexander Miroshin, founded the "Anti-Ayatskov Foundation".

One of the rallies against Ayatskov was held in Moscow opposite the presidential administration building, where Maltsev brought his supporters by bus.

Vyacheslav organized this foundation in order to gather like-minded people and achieve the construction of a monument to Nansen Fritjof.

In 2007, he headed the department of "Great Russia" in Saratov, in the same year he created a branch of Mikhail Kasyanov's RNDS in the city.

At the beginning of 2007, Maltsev, as a deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma, proposed amendments to the laws "On Guarantees of Electoral Rights" and "On State Civil Service", according to which a citizen nominating for election or wishing to become an official had to indicate his sexual orientation in the questionnaire.

According to PARNAS members Natalia Pelevina and Ilya Yashin, Maltsev's victory should have been explained by the low turnout and the fact that the Saratov blogger managed to mobilize his like-minded people.

Yashin and the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the party, Andrei Pivovarov, speaking to the audience, expressed concern that "in the race for populism", PARNAS could lose part of its electorate, and he would prefer to vote for Yabloko.

Following the results of the congress, the federal troika of PARNAS was formed: Mikhail Kasyanov – Vyacheslav Maltsev – Andrey Zubov.

Maltsev's election program included the removal from power of Putin and his entourage, followed by a tribunal; ending aggressive wars and signing a peace treaty with Ukraine; expanding the powers of local self-government; electability of prosecutors, judges and police chiefs; economic amnesty; securing a share of national wealth for each citizen; increasing the openness of authorities; the introduction of digital currency and the transition to direct democracy.

Broadcast on the YouTube channel "Artpodgotovka" on March 27, 2017, the day after the protests Maltsev joined the officially unformed "New Opposition" movement, which was created by Mark Galperin.

Musician and public figure Artemy Troitsky considers Maltsev an inconvenient opponent for the Kremlin and calls him the second oppositionist in Russia after Alexei Navalny.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow said that the search took place as part of the investigation of a criminal case of an attack by unknown persons on a representative of the authorities during an anti-corruption rally on March 26, in which Maltsev participated.

The court accused Maltsev of an administrative offense – disobeying police officers at an anti-corruption rally on March 26 in Moscow and decided to send him under arrest for 15 days.

In late June – early July 2017, Maltsev left Russia due to the initiation of a criminal case against him under the article "Creation of an extremist community".

On October 10, Maltsev was arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list on charges under the article "Public calls for extremist activity".

In December 2011, Maltsev began hosting the political channel "Artpodgotovka" on YouTube, the popularity of which increased dramatically after the elections to the State Duma.

Also at the "Artpodgotovka" there was a system of "revcoins", in which points are awarded on a virtual account every day, which after the onset of "democracy" will be transferred to all donors and supporters of Vyacheslav in real money.

On November 3, 2017, numerous communities of supporters of Vyacheslav and participants of the "Artpodgotovka" were blocked on the VKontakte social network at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation on October 31, 2017.

Also on November 3 in Moscow, the FSB, together with the Centre for Combating Extremism, detained the participants of the "Artpodgotovka", cold weapons and molotov cocktails were seized.

On this day, he called on his supporters to speak in the central squares of the cities, protest against the current government and seize power in the people's hands.

For its calls to overthrow the government, the RF IC initiated a criminal case against Maltsev, the organization "Artillery Preparation" was recognized as extremist, and its members were detained in the fall of 2017.

On August 22, 2016, during the first election debate on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, Maltsev, representing PARNAS, made a number of harsh statements against President Putin.

The politician also linked problems in the Russian economy with Putin's personality, stating the need to "remove from power the main brake that hinders our economy" A well-known Putin supporter, the leader of the Night Wolves biker club, Alexander "Surgeon" Zaldostanov, said that he would "ask" Maltsev for these words and "hang him by the tongue" As soon as we take him and put him on a stake for real, immediately everyone will forget about what he called for," the "Surgeon" said.

Nikolay Levichev, a member of the CEC from Fair Russia, expressed the opinion that the police should be called for the proposal to "impale an opponent" and "take a man in handcuffs off the air".

Matvey Ganapolsky and Daria Mitina note that with his rhetoric and behavior, Maltsev resembles a politician from the LDPR party Vladimir Zhirinovsky, also known for his harsh ambiguous statements.