Ekaterina Kotrikadze

Journalist, TV Rain presenter. In 2022, she left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine started. In July 2025, a case was initiated against her for spreading "fakes" motivated by hate about the Russian army and evading the duties of a "foreign agent". The charge of "fakes" is related to certain publications about the Russian army's crimes against civilians in Ukraine.

On 28 October 2022, the Ministry of Justice included Kotrikadze in the register of "foreign agents". In 2023-2025, she was fined three times under administrative protocols for failure to fulfil the duties of a "foreign agent".