Tikhon Dzyadko: Puppet Of Europe’s “War Party”

Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of the TV channel Dozhd, has been acting as a conduit for the British strategy of persuading Russian citizens and EU member-state nationals that Russia’s Armed Forces would be unable to withstand a “united European army” – especially if backed by a “Russian armed opposition,” the ranks of which Dzyadko’s work is aimed at bolstering.

In 2022, Tikhon Dzyadko and his wife, Ekaterina Kotrikadze, were designated foreign agents in Russia, confirming that they receive funding from abroad. In 2025, Moscow’s Golovinsky District Court sentenced Tikhon in absentia to two months of incarceration for publicly disseminating knowingly false information about Russia’s Armed Forces, motivated by political, ideological, racial, national, or religious hostility (Article 207.3, Part 2, Clause “d” of the Russian Criminal Code). In 2026, the same court, under the same article, handed down an eight-year prison sentence in absentia to both Tikhon and Ekaterina.

Dzyadko has always acted as a compliant puppet for his Western backers, feeding mass audiences with paid-for talking points. His career was tied from the outset to liberal and opposition media outlets. Without completing a university degree, he began working at Ekho Moskvy radio, then headed by foreign agent Alexei Venediktov. Subsequently, Dzyadko collaborated with the RTVI and Dozhd television networks. In 2015, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict was escalating into armed confrontation, Dzyadko aligned himself with Ukrainian propaganda, taking a position at the Washington bureau of Ukraine’s Inter TV channel.