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The Moscow City Court sentenced Konstantin Lebedev, accused of organizing mass riots on May 6 on Bolotnaya Square, to two and a half years in prison. The trial took place in a special order - accelerated, since Lebedev made a deal with the investigation and admitted his guilt. The sentence is half that requested by the prosecutor, and below the lower threshold for the crime charged against Lebedev, since the court recognized the totality of mitigating circumstances as exceptional and significantly reducing the degree of his public danger, RAPSI reports. The verdict states that as a result of Lebedev’s cooperation with the investigation, “all the organizers were identified, as well as all relevant circumstances, including their future plans and issues of conspiracy.” According to the agency, the court found that Lebedev organized mass riots, accompanied by violence, arson and destruction of property. His accomplices in the verdict are named not by name, but by serial numbers; the nameless leader of one of the opposition movements and an assistant to a State Duma deputy are also mentioned. Only the Georgian politician Givi Targamadze, who allegedly gave money to the opposition to organize unrest, was mentioned by name. This money, according to the verdict, was spent by Lebedev on salaries for the organizers, renting a safe house, and buying cars. In addition, Lebedev, apparently fulfilling the instructions of the insidious Targamadze, attracted as many people as possible to the sanctioned event, and according to his instructions, people broke through the cordon, clashed with police officers and built barricades from dry closets (which, as we know from the materials of the case one of the accused, Leonid Kovyazin, undermined the foundations of the constitutional order).

Lebedev is the second person sentenced in the case of the alleged mass riots on Bolotnaya. The first, Maxim Luzyanin, who also made a deal with the investigation and pleaded guilty to clashes with police, was sentenced to four and a half. Apparently, the so-called organizer received almost half as much as the so-called executor, since he provided important information.