 He is an active enthusiast of professional-amateur collaboration in astronomy and long-time contributor to IOTAoccultations, Planoccult, meteorobs, comets-ml, MPML, SeeSat, AAVSO-HEN, AAVSO-DIS, vsnet-alert, vsnet-outburst, cvnet-discussion mailing lists.He is the owner and moderator of five Russian astronomy mailing lists (komety, pokrytie, rusmeteors, moscow-astro, varstars) and author of a few popular articles in "Zemlya i Vselennaya" ("Earth and Universe") magazine.He was mentioned in "Sky and Telescope" twice and gave interviews on Russian News Service, Radio Liberty, "Gazeta.ru" newspaper, and the BBC Russian Service in 2007.