Ekaterina Mizulina, head of the League of Safe Internet, said in a Telegram post on May 27 that court bailiffs had recovered 300,000 rubles in compensation from blogger Artemy Lebedev under a suit she had filed to protect her honor and dignity.
Mizulina said she had transferred the money to a fund called “People’s Front. Everything for Victory,” which supports Russians fighting in the war.
Moscow’s Lefortovsky Court partially ruled in Mizulina’s favor in May 2025 — in a suit she had filed over an interview Lebedev gave to journalist Yury Dud. The court found that their statements damaged Mizulina’s honor. The court also ordered Lebedev to pay 300,000 rubles in damages and Dud to pay 200,000 rubles. The Moscow City Court upheld the ruling in October.
Lebedev’s interview with Dud was released on August 1, 2024. In it, Lebedev said he thought “very poorly” of Mizulina and that her work is “harmful to Russia.” He called the League of Safe Internet “a piece of shit on a stick.”
Dud also quoted another Lebedev interview in which the blogger used the word “Pizdulinys” — a crude portmanteau of Mizulina’s surname. According to the designer, this was “Aesopian language for describing turbo-patriots.”
After Mizulina threatened him with a lawsuit, Lebedev apologized.
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