Since 1996, he has been actively involved in the life of Catholic youth. He participated in local and parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2004. He was one of the initiators of the formation of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. But since 2011 he has withdrawn from active participation in political life.
He was convicted, among other things, for posting information about the «Freedom March» on his page on August 15, 2020, on August 17 he posted information in which he analyzes the mistakes of the last march, on August 20, 2020 he posted information about how to act when suppressing protests by law enforcement officers. He left more than twenty such messages.
Artyukhov was also accused of direct participation in one such action in Minsk in August 2020.
Nikolay admitted his guilt in the commission of the acts incriminated to him in full at the court hearing, did not deny the authorship of the texts and messages that he left on the social network vk.ru and facebook.com.
