 As a member of the Coordinating Council, “he has consistently pursued a grassroots social movement agenda.”

In March 2013, Gaskarov won election to the alternative People's Council of Zhukovsky.Almost a year after the Bolotnaya Square protests, on April 28, 2013, as he was looking to head the anti-fascists in Russia, he was taken into custody in Moscow, becoming the last person to be arrested in the Bolotnaya Square case.He was taken into custody when he left his apartment to buy groceries.