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Platon Lebedev is currently in a pre-trial detention center in Arkhangelsk, where he will stay at least until Friday evening, reports RIA Novosti. Lebedev's lawyer Yelena Liptser stated:

"We found Platon Lebedev in a pre-trial detention center in the city of Arkhangelsk, from which a videoconference scheduled for Friday will be held with the Moscow City Court on the consideration of his appeal against extensions of detention"

Liptser said Lebedev was transferred to the pre-trial detention center from Penal Colony 14 in the Arkhangelsk Region's city of Velsk in northwestern Russia. She added that she does not know which jail Lebedev will complete his term in prison.