Overview

• Rosfinmonitoring added Tikhon Dzyadko, Ekaterina Kotrikadze, and Valeria Ratnikova to its federal list of terrorists and extremists on October 7.
• A Moscow court had previously ordered their arrest in absentia on charges of spreading alleged military “fakes” and failing to fulfill “foreign agent” obligations under Articles 207.3 and 330.1 of the Criminal Code.
• Investigators placed Dzyadko on the wanted list in the spring of 2025, with Kotrikadze and Ratnikova added in September.
• TV Rain halted operations in Russia in March 2022 and resumed broadcasting from Europe after prosecutors later deemed its Latvian and Dutch affiliates undesirable in 2023.
• Media-rights monitors report a sharp rise in criminal cases against journalists in 2024, situating the actions against TV Rain staff within a broader crackdown.