Lebedev, Konstantin Vladimirovich

Born on June 25, 1979 in Moscow. Since 1996, he studied at the Oil and Gas Institute. Gubkin .

According to him, he worked at an advertising agency, which then closed during the 1998 crisis. ^[2]

In 1999, he joined the RKRP-PKK , and from that same year he began to take part in protest actions.

In 2001, Lebedev joined the pro-Kremlin youth movement " Going Together " and took the position of spokesman there. In the summer of 2004, Lebedev left Walking Together and in the autumn of the same year he became one of the founders of the democratic public movement Smena , later referred to as the leader of this organization. As part of Smena, Lebedev took part in the events of the Orange Revolution in Kiev at the end of 2004 . In 2005 in Ukraine at the end of Maidan, he met Givi Targamadze. In 2006, he also worked in Belarus. ^[2] In addition, representatives of Smena participated in rallies in defense of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in May 2005, marches of dissent and other actions.

In 2008, Lebedev joined the Other Russia opposition coalition. In the same year he was elected to the National Assembly . In addition, in 2009, Lebedev was mentioned in the media as a member of the political council of the Moscow branch of the Solidarity movement.

In 2011, Lebedev joined the Russian socialist movement .

In March 2012, he was expelled from the RCWP-RPK (at that time, the RCWP-CPSU) for the loss of communication with the organization ^[3] .

In October 2012, Lebedev was one of the candidates for the Coordinating Council of the Opposition from the curia of the left, but did not pass, gaining about 8 thousand votes ^[4] .

On October 18, 2012, in the Basmanny Court of Moscow, a hearing was held on the materials of the criminal case initiated on the basis of the NTV film “ Anatomy of Protest-2 ” to determine the measure of restraint. Judge Irina Skuridina sanctioned Lebedev’s arrest for a period of two months. According to investigators, he was the main initiator of meetings with representatives of foreign authorities ( Givi Targamadze ). Lebedev was charged with preparing for the organization of riots . Konstantin Lebedev did not admit his guilt.

On November 7, 2012, Lebedev signed an agreement with the investigation. ^[2] Otherwise, as Lebedev believed, he was threatened with a ten-year maximum term.

On February 13, 2013, the court replaced the deprivation of liberty with house arrest, as he allegedly no longer has the physical ability to destroy the evidence gathered in the case, or put pressure on possible witnesses, but there is still an opportunity to escape. ^[5] Lebedev was changed the preventive measure because he gave the investigation the necessary evidence and made a deal. It is considered that it was Lebedev who was filming that meeting with Targamadze. ^[five]

On April 5, 2013 it became known that Konstantin Lebedev fully admitted his guilt, the case was sent to the court and will be considered in a special order. ^[6]

On April 8, 2013, a meeting of the Central Council of the Russian Socialist Movement was held , at which it was decided to exclude him from the organization, due to the fact that "information about the cooperation of Konstantin Lebedev with the investigation was confirmed." ^[7] Defendants Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev deny blame, they and their supporters have repeatedly said that they consider the act of Konstantin Lebedev a betrayal, and his testimony as a slander. ^[eight]

On April 25, 2013, the Moscow City Court sentenced him to 2.5 years in prison of the general regime colony Konstantin Lebedev, convicting him of organizing mass riots on Bolotnaya Square in the capital on May 6, 2012. He was taken into custody in the courtroom, as he was under house arrest at the investigation stage. ^[9] Lebedev was not transferred to a colony, as he must stand as a witness for the prosecution in the court case of the opposition members Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev, ^[10]

After serving the conclusion, Konstantin Lebedev was going to go on a trip to Latin America and, preparing for this, he intended to learn Spanish in the colony. ^[eleven]

In January 2014, lawyer Valery Lavrov states that Lebedev did not receive any penalties in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center , therefore there are no obstacles to his release on parole . ^[ten]

On April 24, 2014, positive characteristics of Lebedev from the SIZO were read out in the Lefortovsky Court of Moscow, on the basis of which the prison management did not object to his parole. The representative of the FPS also requested to satisfy the petition. Lebedev himself said that he had drawn the appropriate conclusions and that the served sentence was enough for him: “All free-thinking, illegal actions are all in the past.” ^[ten]

On May 6, 2014, by decision of the Moscow City Court, Konstantin Lebedev was released from the SIZO. ^[12]

• “The Udaltsov Case”

• Lebedev, Constantine - an article in Lentapedia . year 2012.
• Konstantin Vladimirovich Lebedev (reference) Gazeta.Ru .
• List of deputies of the National Assembly .
• “I don’t feel like a traitor” - an interview with Konstantin Lebedev after the verdict, “Kommersant-Online”, 04/28/2013.