 Martynyuk is the author of a viral YouTube channel titled The Lies of Putin's Regime, which has a total of over 55 million views for all the videos posted.In August 2014, the Moscow arbitration court began hearings on the claim launched by Vladimir Yakunin, the head of Russian Railways, one of the largest state-owned companies, against the authors of the investigative report "Winter Olympics in the Subtropics", Boris Nemtsov, a leader of the Russian opposition, and Leonid Martynyuk.The plaintiff asked the court to require the defendants to refute them and to pay jointly and severally to 3 million rubles.