Troitsky is 67 years old, since the seventies he has been organizing parties in apartments, in 1982 he became the guitarist of the Sounds of Mu group, in the nineties he began to organize concerts, in particular, Blondie, Mouse On Mars, Massive Attack and other iconic made in Russia not without their participation teams. Trotsky is widely known as a music critic; he for many years he taught music journalism at the Moscow State University.
In 2014 Troitsky moved to Estonia. In recent months, in his interviews, he has repeatedly criticized artists who support the CBO.
Earlier it became known that the actor Artur Smolyaninov was included in the list of foreign agents.