On 5 March 2014 the Shevchenko District Court of Kyiv ruled on the detention of the self-proclaimed leaders Sergey Aksyonov and Vladimir Konstantinov.

He is a graduate of Simferopol branch of Sevastopol instrument-making institute, majoring in industrial and civil engineering.

He worked as an assistant driver of a stone-cutting machine at the Alminsky building materials plant.

In 1979 he graduated from the Simferopol branch of the Sevastopol Instrument-Making Institute with a degree in Industrial and Civil Construction.

Andriy Senchenko, member of the Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council of Ukraine) from Batkivshchyna party led by Yulia Tymoshenko, has alleged in March 2014 that Vladimir Konstatinov has been involved in fraudulent real estate transactions and that he has worked since the 1990s with Prime Minister Sergey Aksyonov,[16] whom Senchenko alleged to be a member of organized crime.