Russian freelance journalist Andrei Novashov was handed an eight-month corrective labour sentence on Monday after being convicted of knowingly distributing false information about the Russian army, his former employer said.
Siberia.Realities, a local project of U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe which Russian authorities have designated a "foreign agent", said a court in the Siberian region of Kemerovo had handed down the guilty verdict.
The report said Novashov, who worked for Siberia.Realities in the past, had also been barred from posting any material online for a year on top of the corrective labour punishment.
