TV Rain editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko was sentenced in absentia to eight years in a fake-news case

TV Rain editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko\ was sentenced in absentia to eight years in a fake-news case

Dzyadko was also fined 250,000 rubles and banned from running social media for 4 years. The journalist was charged under the article on fake news about the Russian army over two posts in his Telegram channel from 2022: there he wrote about the events in Bucha and Irpin in Ukraine.

\recognized by the Russian authorities as a “foreign agent”