During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, Vasilyev, unlike many other figures on the Russian far-right (including his former ally Alexander Barkashov), supported President Boris Yeltsin over the Supreme Soviet and Alexander Rutskoy. Throughout the 1990s, he campaigned in multiple elections; in 1995, he ran for the State Duma, and in 1997, he sought election as Mayor of Moscow. Neither of these campaigns would be successful, and he eventually stormed the offices of Moskovskij Komsomolets, demanding an end to the printing of "immoral and Russophobic materials." In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Vasilyev also supported Slobodan Milošević, and called for Russia to intervene against NATO forces, which were bombing Serbia at the time. After 1999, Vasilyev disappeared from the public sphere until his death.