Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kamar yadda aka bayyana a tarihin rayuwarsa na hukuma, Bobkov ya kasance yana da hannu wajen warware rikice-rikicen kabilanci a Tarayyar Soviet, gami da Sumgait pogrom, abubuwan da suka faru a Vilnius, 1989 pogroms a kwarin Fergana a Uzbekistan, Almaty tawaye a 1986, Janairu 1991 abubuwan da suka faru a Latvia
, da kuma wasu da yawa. Koyaya, duk waɗannan rikice-rikicen da KGB da kanta ta shirya don tabbatar da mahimmancin ayyukan ɓoye na Soviet, a cewar memba na Politburo na CPSU Alexander Yakovlev.