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Dmitrii Bykov
Artists
1967-12-20
Не в России
Moscow
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Writer, publicist. In July 2022, he was included in the register of "foreign agents". In April 2025, the Investigative Committee reported that a case was opened against Bykov for dissemination of deliberately false information about the RF Armed Forces and evasion of duties as a "foreign agent".
On 1 October 2025, the court sentenced him in absentia to seven years in a general regime colony and a fine of 300 thousand rubles.
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