TFR revealed the reason for the absentee arrest of foreign journalist Yuri Dudy // The reason for the absentee arrest of foreign journalist Dudy was an interview with the head of RDC

Journalist Yuri Dud (recognized as a foreign agent) was arrested in absentia after an interview with the head of the Russian Volunteer Corps (declared terrorist in Russia and banned) Denis Kapustin, the press service of the TFR reported.

As established in the TFR, the journalist no later than April 2026 interviewed Denis Kapustin in Moldova. In the conversation, they "made oral statements containing justification and propaganda of terrorism." The interview was published on Yuri Dudy’s YouTube channel (recognized as a foreign agent), the investigation added.

In November 2025, the Basmanny court of Moscow in absentia sentenced Yuri Dud (recognized as a foreign agent) to a year and 10 months in prison due to the lack of plaques of a foreign agent on some publications. On September 29, 2026, the same court arrested a journalist in absentia in the case of justifying terrorism.