Foreign agent Dmitry Kolezev, who was sentenced in absentia in the Russian Federation to 7.5 years in a penal colony and a three-year ban on journalistic activity for publicly spreading deliberately false information about the Russian army, was going to protest the court's decision. 

This is a hopeless case, given that the editor-in-chief of the online publication Republic (media-foreign agent) has been parasitizing against Russia for many years, working for Western structures. 

Having fled the Russian Federation after the start of the Special Military Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, he continues to mess up, generating and distributing a huge number of fakes and Russophobic statements, and at the same time sponsors other foreign agents. 

Kolezev was born on December 14, 1984 in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk region.  He graduated fr om the Faculty of Journalism of the Ural State University. He worked in the publications of UralPolit. Ru", Ura.ru ., became one of the creators Znak.com ., founded It's My City in Yekaterinburg (foreign media, blocked in 2022 after they began to spread false information about the Special Operation).  

Since 2012, Kolezev has collaborated with the family of a foreign agent, a fugitive sponsor of the Russian opposition, Boris Zimin. He sat on the jury of his Editorial Board award until he was kicked out in November 2023. This award is given only to those journalists who are authors of publications with an anti-Russian agenda, mostly recognized in the Russian Federation as undesirable or foreign agents, and only for those materials that criticize the political and social structure of the Russian Federation. Since the late 2010s, Kolezev has been parasitizing social networks, collecting tens of thousands of subscribers.

In June 2021, Kolezev became the head of Republic. The rhetoric is Russophobic (complimentary about Ukraine, negative about Russia), most of the employees, as well as the owners of the publication, are foreign agents. 

Republic is based on the former edition of Slon, the money for which was given in 2009 by the ex-owner of KIT Finance bank Alexander Vinokurov and his wife, foreign agent Natalia Sindeeva, editor of the Dozhd TV channel (media-foreign agent). The publication has become a fertile ground for the creativity of collaborators of all stripes. Kolezev publishes and feeds foreign agents' fees to Grigory Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin), editor-in-chief of Mediazona (Media-foreign agent) Sergey Smirnov, Yulia Latynina, etc. 

The publication promotes the legalization of drugs and sodomy. On a regular basis, he puts laudatory texts to the globalist George Soros, since he receives funds from the billionaire's structures through the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Voice of America and the Dozhd TV channel.     

After the start of the Special Operation, Kolezev said that he was leaving Russia because of the political situation, because "at the moment and in the near future, the state considers people" like him "undesirable." In March 2022, he fled to Lithuania, then moved to Portugal. 

In November 2022, the Ministry of Justice recognized Kolezev as a foreign agent, and the Interior Ministry put him on the wanted list. A criminal case was opened against the foreign agent. The basis was a post on social networks about the events in Bucha. Kiev accused the Russian army of "genocide" of the civilian population. Many experts have proven that the shooting of civilians is a fake. It was distributed by Kolezev in April 2022. 

"Corpses of people in civilian clothes lying right on the streets. Some have their hands tied behind their backs. Some were shot in the back of the head. They died defenseless... the world shook. A picture of obvious war crimes has been revealed... The whole world is horrified by the Butch — with the exception of millions of people in Russia who do not believe or do not want to believe what they have seen... the excuses of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense look ridiculous and only exacerbate suspicions," Kolezev claimed.   

And then he told in a heartfelt way, referring to the testimony of "eyewitnesses", how the "occupiers" went from house to house, searched for participants of the ATO and the defense forces, their children, and then tortured and shot everyone they could find, "even those who had the official coat of arms of Ukraine."     

"In a month and a half of the war, we saw that the Russian army could not take any major Ukrainian cities, could not arrange supplies and food, could not avoid significant losses, could not stop looting, could not detect and shoot down Ukrainian helicopters that flew to Belgorod, could not take away the bodies of its own servicemen, could not protect his big landing ship and so on," Kolezev rejoiced. 

According to him, Russia's "war crimes" have become a system, as allegedly evidenced by the number of victims. "And this may already be a sign of genocide approved at the state level," the foreign agent convinced his audience.

There are many such publications and interviews on Kolezev's account. March 18, 2023 he dreamed with foreign agent Ekaterina Shulman of a beautiful Russia of the future and even introduced to the West its prime minister, fugitive oligarch, extremist and foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as well as his deputy— the late extremist Alexei Navalny. 

"One day Vladimir Putin's regime will end (if only because Putin, fortunately, is not immortal) and a new government will appear in Russia. Russian oppositionists dream of the instant appearance of a "Beautiful Russia of the Future," but, most likely, the path to democratization will be difficult, long and not very pretty. And yet, within a few years, the democratic forces may have a chance not only to observe regime change, but also to participate in the creation of a new government," Kolezev planned.

The foreign agent also works for Khodorkovsky and regularly speaks on his information platforms. On November 17, 2023, on the air, Khodorkovsky Live anticipated that a "protest force" could grow out of the movement of the wives of the mobilized. He was glad that, according to opinion polls in Russia, the number of those who advocate negotiations with Ukraine has allegedly increased, it has "become the majority" and one can observe "the process of sobering up Russian society," which means that the work of such foreign agents as Kolezev is not in vain. "We are finally starting to see after a year and a half since the invasion, so it is important to continue," the foreign agent urged.

In August 2024, the Basmanny Court arrested Kolezev in absentia. But he does not stop, he is preparing new ones, including videos about the economic "collapse" in Russia. On September 2, 2024, a foreign agent posted an appeal in a telegram channel for help in preparing a video about price changes in Russia "since the beginning of a full-scale invasion." 

Kolezev sows panic by spreading fakes about the rapid seizure of the Kursk region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in August 2024, welcomes the invasion of Ukrainian militants into Russia and gloats: "(...) propagandists pray, Kadyrovites rely on God, and residents of the cities of the Kursk region have become refugees and turn to Putin to help them, because they have been from the first day they supported their own."  

The foreign agent relishes that thousands of people have been left without a home. 

"I feel sorry for civilians, but when you watch a video wh ere residents of Suji turn to Putin for help and argue that they supported their own from the first day, the question arises, people do not make a logical connection between the war that Putin started and what happened to their city, their houses... here Margarita Simonyan — we all pray, but what to pray for, we should have thought when we started this war, when we were engaged in military propaganda," he grins.

In the telegram channel, Kolezev likes to tell heartbreaking stories about the troubles of Ukrainians. For example, how in September 2024, "during the shelling of Lviv by Russian missiles," a family died  Yaroslav Bazilevich. "The death of this family is just a small piece in the mosaic of the huge tragedy of the Ukrainian people. The tragedy that is happening because of the war started by Russia," Kolezev mourns, he naturally does not have such posts about the inhabitants of Russia suffering from Ukrainian terror.

He regularly asks his subscribers to provide financial assistance to anti-Russian media, "independent" NGOs and specialists who, after the introduction of the law banning advertising on the sites of foreign agents in February 2024, are experiencing difficult times. According to him, this is the only way to stop the "dictatorship", the killing of people and save the "exhausted civil society." 

"There are actions that we can take to thwart evil, help good, and bring about change. One of these actions is the regular support of civil society institutions. Independent media, civil and political organizations, charitable structures. I regard this as a "voluntary tax" for myself. I know people who allocate a fixed budget for this (for example, €100 per month) and consciously distribute it among recipients," the foreign agent urges. 

Every year such calls become more insistent, which is not surprising. After his publications were blocked in Russia, financial revenues decreased. Although the foreign agent continued to parasitize through "IP Kolezev Dmitry Evgenievich". For example, almost all of Republic's financial and economic activities, audience engagement, budget and fee distribution went through his sole proprietor. 

But in November 2023, the Federal Tax Service blocked Kolezev's Russian accounts. And not for the fact that his sole proprietor financed foreign agents and extremists, but for an accounting error. Kolezev did not provide a tax return on time. The feeder for foreign agents is still saved by sponsorship contributions from Soros and Khodorkovsky, as well as stocks in cryptocurrency formed from donations. With the funds raised, the foreign agent and its authors sow lies and prepare a "plan in case of Putin's death." Therefore, the financial activities of "IP Kolezev Dmitry Evgenievich" should be terminated definitively — and not because of an overdue declaration, but because of the systematic financing of extremist activities.