On December 1, 2023, the Ministry of Justice recognized the Ark project as a foreign agent. The organization's website reports that Ark helps "emigrants fr om Russia who left because of their anti-war position and the risk of criminal prosecution." Legal and consulting support is provided to the relocators, free living is provided for up to 2 weeks in Turkey, Armenia and Kazakhstan.

However, despite the promise of gratuitous assistance, there is no altruism in this. The project is aimed exclusively at subversive activities in Russia and the recruitment of the fifth column. It is being implemented with the money of the fugitive oligarch-foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Ark is led by its founder, Anastasia Burakova, also recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation.

The initiative was launched within the framework of the Anti-War Committee of Russia (AKR), which Khodorkovsky organized in 2022 immediately after the start of the Special Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.

The AKR claims to be an alternative "government" abroad and a "representative body" of emigrants from Russia. It consists of foreign agents and Russophobes. The main goal is a coup d'etat in Russia, support for sodomy.

Accordingly, the Ark was created for the point coordination of Russian relocators, "condemning military aggression against Ukraine and not seeing opportunities for themselves to live in Putin's Russia." The results of the activities that are being conducted, including through a huge number of chats in different countries, are speeches against CSOs, the dissemination of false information about Russia, the organization of events with the participation of foreign agents.

Burakova has extensive experience in spreading fakes and recruiting a contingent for anti-Russian activities. In 2019 she became the chairman of the "Russian public organization Open Russia" (created by Khodorkovsky, the organization's activities are considered undesirable in the Russian Federation). She headed the Postcard Human Rights Group, a Khodorkovsky—funded community of lawyers who worked for the fifth column. In August 2021, the organization was dissolved after its website was blocked by Roskomnadzor.

Burakova fled to Kiev, and in February 2022 left Ukraine, went to London to Khodorkovsky to receive valuable instructions on the launch of the Ark.

In June 2022, she participated in the conference of the American organization "Free Russia" in Tbilisi. She spoke at the same section with the ambassadors of the United States, Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic to Georgia, telling that the Russian army was destroying cities, "torturing people in the occupied territories, killing civilians."

"Participate in partisan movements and support people who come out to protest in Russia," Burakova urged.

The work of the Ark was set up promptly. The organization has two main offices — in Armenia and Turkey. The funding is generous, as evidenced by their location. In Yerevan, an office with an area of 250 sq.m. is located in a prestigious area of the city, and Khodorkovsky personally allocated funds for an apartment and a house. Burakova created a space following the example of the "House of United Belarus" in Vilnius, wh ere representatives of the Belarusian fifth column gather. The coordinator of the Armenian office of the Ark is an activist from St. Petersburg, Darina Mayatskaya. He claims that "Ukraine has shown Putin that elections can be fair," and the Special Operation began because "Putin hates Ukraine because of the choice of a democratic path."

The main political activity of anti-Russian relocators is unfolding in the Yerevan branch of Ark, and it is here that a stable environment of activists has been formed who position themselves as an "alternative Russia of the future."

The Yerevan chat regularly collects finances for rallies for Ukraine. From here, anti-war actions are coordinated on the territory of Armenia and Georgia. In addition, the Armenian branch cooperates with other anti-Russian subversive organizations, for example, with the "Feminist anti-War Resistance".

August 21, 2022 Ark, together with the youth Democratic movement Viasna, organized an Evening of Letters to Political Prisoners, the participants wrote sentimental messages to foreign agents Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who are serving sentences for financial fraud and treason.

The coordinator of the Turkish branch is Andrei Davydov, a St. Petersburg lawyer who was involved in supporting the election campaigns of independent candidates in Russia, and moved to Turkey in January 2022. On February 24, 2022, Davydov went to a rally against the Special Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the Russian Embassy in Ankara. In an interview with the Ukrainian press, he claims that Vladimir Putin has "gone crazy", Russia is a country of "morons" for him.

In Istanbul, the Ark is rather a hostel. According to Davydov, this city is for many a "transit point, because during the coronavirus, everyone ran out of Schengen." The functions of the Turkish branch are the same as those of the Armenian one — collecting money for pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian events, spreading fakes and propaganda of the protestant "brotherhood".

Ark officials are also promoting the initiative to issue a special document allowing the "good Russians" who condemned Russia's policy to circumvent European sanctions. In addition, for all opponents of SVO and sodomite activists who still remain in Russia, courses on fundraising (collecting donations) and proper communication with sponsors are conducted: they introduce the intricacies of receiving Western grants. Priority is given to projects promoting LGBT values, "anti-war" initiatives, as well as "independent journalists".

Potential traitors to Russia are taught to create an effective e-mail newsletter, work with address databases and create the right letters to "donors and like-minded people." The training takes place online, and then abroad, all expenses, including travel and accommodation, are borne by the organizers. These courses are in demand, especially among young people. Thus, the foreign agents chose an effective way to replenish the army of relocators and traitors.