[3] The journal is considered to be an important document of the nationalist or Slavophile strand within the Soviet dissident movement.
He was expelled in 1959 for protesting the arrest of Anatoly Ivanov, a fellow student, but was able to finish his studies at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute in 1960.
[4][1] As a student, Osipov was involved in reviving the informal Mayakovsky Square poetry readings in 1960.
[2] Osipov took part in the defence of the parliament during the attempted hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August 1991.
[7] During the 1990s and early 2000s, Osipov was active as one of the leaders of the Union "Christian Rebirth" (UCR), which calls for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.