placed in the rubric “From the history of military-political relations”. Currently, Platoshkin is the head of the department of international relations and diplomacy at Moscow University for the Humanities. On May 25, 2018, a two-year lecture course “Germany in the war and post-war time” was completed as part of the evening courses of Dmitry Pozharsky University. Expert on TV and radio, video blogger Nikolay Platoshkin acted as an expert in television and radio broadcasts: “60 minutes” on Russia-1 channel, “Time Will Show” on Channel One, “Meeting Place” on NTV channel, “Right to Vote” on TV Centre channel, the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and others. Since October 19, 2019, after declaring his intention to be a candidate for the Russian presidential election in 2024, he no longer received an invitation to speak on the main Russian television channels, since, in his opinion, he was included in the “black list” on a command from the Presidential Administration. He is also a popular video blogger, his YouTube channel has over 570 thousand subscribers, since January 2021 his videos have been watched over 118 million times. Social and political activities Since 1988 - a candidate for membership in the Communist Party. In 1989, he refused entry, citing this act as a disagreement with the policy of the General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. During the events of the Velvet Revolution in Armenia, he supported popular protests and the coming to power of Nikol Pashinyan. He criticized the socio-economic policies of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, in particular, he criticized the budget rule introduced by the Ministry of Finance. He participated in Moscow protests organized by the Communist Party against the pension reform, and called on supporters to participate in rallies. In the election of the heads of the constituent entities of the Federation on September 9, 2018, he called for voting against "United Russia" party. In the fall of 2018, at the election of the head of the republic of Khakassia, Platoshkin supported the Communist Party candidate V. Konovalov. In January 2019, on his Facebook page, Platoshkin posted a video where he announced his intention to create the socio-political association “For a New Socialism” and outlined the main points of the program of this movement (the goal of the movement is to restore socialism in Russia through elections). After not admitting to the elections to the Moscow City Duma, he put forward instead of himself and