In the same year aired the television series "Filipp's Bay", in which Khabensky was filmed in parallel with the shooting of "Day Watch". In 2007, Khabensky played Kostya Lukashin opposite Elizaveta Boyarskaya in Timur Bekmambetov's romantic-comedy "The Irony of Fate 2", sequel to 1976 Soviet classic "The Irony of Fate". Its plot centered around the grown-up children of Evgeniy Lukashin and Nadezhda Sheveleva who have managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago. The film made $55 million against a $5 million budget, with $49 million coming from the Russian box-office alone. For the film he earned the Best Comedy Actor prize at the MTV Russia Movie Awards. Also in 2007, he appeared as Denis Maltsev in thriller "The Russian Triangle" by Aleko Tsabadze which was about two brothers who survive brutal torture and Chechen captivity. In 2008, Khabensky reunited with Elizaveta Boyarskaya to film the 2008 biographical movie "The Admiral" by Andrei Kravchuk. He portrayed Alexander Kolchak, vice-admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War. The film earned $38 million at the box-office. Khabensky was recognized as best actor at the MTV Russia Movie Awards and Golden Eagle Awards. In the same year, he played Anton Prachenko in suspense film "The Ghost" by Karen Oganesyan. The picture was about a crime novelist in a creative crisis who becomes an unwitting witness to a murder and whose fate becomes linked with the hired killer who committed it, played by Vladimir Mashkov. Khabensky appeared in the 2009 mystical drama "The Miracle" by Aleksandr Proshkin. The film was inspired by the urban legend of Zoya who after dancing with an icon of Saint Nicholas became paralyzed. In 2010, he played Vyacheslav Kolotilov in the comedy "Lucky Trouble" which co-starred Milla Jovovich and was directed by Levan Gabriadze. The film was about a school teacher traveling to Moscow to get married but who on his way there is mistaken for a football coach which puts him in danger of missing his own wedding. In the supernatural courtroom drama series "Heavenly Court" made in 2011, he played the character of Andrei who dies and becomes a prosecutor in the afterlife.