The court sentenced Boris Grozovsky in absentia to 2 years in prison

The case stemmed from an interview with “Radio Svoboda”, which Grozovsky gave in November 2025 and in which he talked about how the Russian government is fighting Russians’ debt burden. At the hearing on November 5, witness Andrey Kupchenkov was questioned: he said that he regularly listens to “Radio Svoboda”, saw Grozovsky in one of the programs as a guest expert, and remembered his words about “economic collapse” and “falling monetary policy”.

The lawyer asked for Grozovsky to be acquitted and argued that the investigation had not proved intent. She also insisted that the words of a narrow specialist about the prospects of the Russian economy do not threaten national security.

The prosecutor asked for Grozovsky to be sentenced to 3 years and 11 months in prison. In the end, the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow sentenced him in absentia to 2 years in a general-regime penal colony and banned him from administering websites on the internet for 5 years.

In December 2024, the same court had already fined Grozovsky under a protocol on ties to an “undesirable” organization for participating in journalist Sergei Medvedev’s program “Archaeology” on “Radio Svoboda”. In addition, he was fined under protocols for failing to comply with requirements for “foreign agents” as a participant in the media project “Country and the World” of the Andrey Sakharov Academic Foundation, which the Prosecutor General’s Office declared an “undesirable” organization in Russia in 2023.

The sentence was reported by a “Mediazona” correspondent from the courtroom.