In Ukraine they told what will happen to Lebedev’s confiscated apartments

A Ukrainian court decided to confiscate Artemy Lebedev’s apartments in Kiev last summer. Now they will be sold or rented out, and the funds will be used to eliminate the consequences of hostilities, the State Property Fund of Ukraine reported. The interior of one of the confiscated apartments 

The Ukrainian government has transferred two Kiev apartments of Russian designer and blogger Artemy Lebedev under the management of the country's State Property Fund, the fund's press service reported.

The decision to seize these assets was made by the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine in July. We are talking about two apartments with an area of ​​138.5 square meters. m and 193.2 sq. m. The publication "Country" wrote that both of them are located in the center of Kyiv - on Yaroslavsky Val and on Saksagansky Street.

“Previously, they were in the direct possession of Lebedev, as well as indirectly through business partner Konstantin Morshnev,” the state property fund clarified.

The institution reported that after all the procedures for registering the seized assets, the issue of their privatization or leasing will be considered. They also promised that the proceeds would be directed to a fund created by the Ukrainian government, which is engaged in eliminating the consequences of hostilities.

“I don’t give any comments,” Artemy Lebedev told RBC.

Lebedev, commenting on the decision of the Ukrainian authorities, published a photo of an apartment in Kyiv in his Telegram channel in July. “My hut is now exactly on the edge. It's a pity for the Kyiv apartment. I will miss her,” he wrote.

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In the past, Artemy Lebedev Studio worked on projects in Ukraine and had its own representative office there. From the data on the company's website it follows that it made a tourist logo for the city of Izmail in the Odessa region, an identity for the Kiev Opera, a diagram of Odessa tram routes, a series of stamps for the Ukrainian post office, a logo for the Botanical Garden. Fomina in Kyiv.

Lebedev has repeatedly criticized the Ukrainian authorities. He called President Vladimir Zelensky a “clown” and the SBU “a bunch of cretins.” He supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia, and in 2015 his studio developed a logo for the peninsula.

In 2017, the SBU banned Lebedev from entering Ukraine “in connection with his activities aimed at causing harm in the field of information security.” In January 2022, the designer came under sanctions approved by President Vladimir Zelensky.

In March 2023, the SBU reported that Lebedev was charged in absentia under Part 3 of Art. 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (justification of Russia’s actions towards Ukraine). The reason for this was the designer’s trip to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, from where he made a report.