The Dozhd journalist Ekaterina Kotrikadze was sentenced in absentia to eight years in a penal colony.

A journalist of the Dozhd TV channel (recognized as a foreign agent and an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation) Ekaterina Kotrikadze (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation, included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) was sentenced in absentia to eight years in a penal colony in the case of spreading fakes about the Armed Forces of Russia. This was reported on February 16 in the press service of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia in Moscow.

"By the verdict of the court, Kotrikadze was found guilty and sentenced in absentia to imprisonment for a term of 8 years, to be served in a correctional colony of a general regime," the department wrote on its Telegram channel.

In addition, she has been banned from website administration for four years.

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The 17-year-old author of the stuffing admitted to Izvestia that no one in the opposition media had checked his inventions.

On the same day, the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow found businessman Evgeny Chichvarkin guilty in absentia and sentenced him to nine years in a general regime penal colony (recognized as a foreign agent, listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) in the case of spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces and evading the duties of a foreign agent. It also became known that he was deprived of the right to administer websites on the Internet for 4 years and 11 months.

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