Artur was arrested in a criminal case opened under the articles "desecration of state symbols" and "hooliganism" and found guilty in October 2021. He was accused of hanging a white-red-white flag at a school in Ostrovets one night in June 2021, painting three white-red-white stripes on a stone, and tearing down a red-green flag from a government building in the district center.
He was released in May 2024, having fully served his sentence.
