The editor-in-chief of Mediazona was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison The Moscow Magistrate's Court sentenced the editor-in-chief of the publication Mediazona (also known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) to a year in prison in absentia for evading the duties imposed by this status, the press service of the Moscow City Court told Interfax. "According to the verdict of the peace district of the court No. 313 of the Maryna Roshcha district of the city of Moscow, Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov was found guilty of committing a crime under part.

The editor-in-chief of Mediazona was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison The Moscow Magistrate's Court sentenced the editor-in-chief of the publication Mediazona (also known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) to a year in prison in absentia for evading the duties imposed by this status, the press service of the Moscow City Court told Interfax. "According to the verdict of the peace district of the court No. 313 of the Maryna Roshcha district of the city of Moscow, Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov was found guilty of committing a crime under part.