The court said in a statement that he would be sent to a penal colony if he ever returned to Russia, and that he was banned from managing internet content for four years.
Nevzorov, who runs a YouTube channel with close to 2 million subscribers, called the investigation ridiculous and left Russia with his wife last March. Prosecutors had asked for a nine-year sentence.
Nevzorov responded to the verdict by saying “I don’t think Russia will exist in nine years’ time”.
In comments to a Russian news outlet, “We can explain”, he said he had no plans to return to the country and that President Vladimir Putin was heading “a dictatorship based on dirt, blood and denunciations”.
Nevzorov, who made his name hosting the pioneering news programme “600 Seconds” as Soviet society opened up under Mikhail Gorbachev and also served in Russia’s parliament, was granted Ukrainian citizenship after publicly denouncing Russia’s invasion, calling the…
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