ANS activists are often detained at rallies and demonstrations (including those agreed), by law enforcement officers. In November 2018, two ANS activists and the coordinator were detained on the eve of the Russian March as witnesses in a criminal case about an abandoned fire, searches were carried out in the apartments of the activists and the ANS headquarters. In the spring of 2019, information appeared about a criminal case against an activist of the Volgodonsk branch of the ANS - Vladimir Boyarinov, later activists denied this information, and Boyarinov himself said that he was specially used in order to falsify a criminal case against the ANS leadership. According to other information, Boyarinov simply used the ANS for personal gain. In the summer of 2019, during the Moscow protests on July 27, the press secretary of the ANS, Nikita Zaitsev, was detained, who later cut his veins in the police department.