Political Prisoner Artem Lebedko Has Been Released

• 23.07.2026, 12:15

This is the son of Tikhanovskaya's advisor.

Artem Lebedko has been released, the son of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s advisor, Anatoly Lebedko. Anatoly announced this on social media.

In August 2023, Lebedko was sentenced to 3.5 years in a penal colony under the article on financing “extremist activities” (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code).

Security forces detained Artem Lebedko on March 28. At that time, the court ordered his detention for 15 days for “using obscene language near a police station.” On April 12, the court again detained the politician’s son for 15 days under the charge of disobeying an official’s order (Article 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

On April 30, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against him.