.A Moscow courthouse penalized Oscar-nominated movie manufacturer Alexander Rodnyansky to eight-and-a-half years jail in absentia on Monday for spreading out "phony" info about the Russian soldiers.Rodnyansky, 63, was actually birthed in Kyiv yet invested a lot of his career in Russia, making dozens of television series and also movies certainly there including Oscar-nominated crime drama "Mammoth.".He left the country not long after it sent out troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and has actually been actually a frank doubter of the Kremlin's offending because, repetitively knocking it on social media sites.Moscow's Basmanny District Court of law located him bad of "spreading out knowingly inaccurate relevant information regarding using the Russian militaries," according to a claim through Moscow's court of law service.Rodnyansky mentioned the scenario was actually connected to his "anti-war posts on Instagram" as well as stated he highly disagreed with the judgment." No Basmanny court may stop me coming from and also performing what I have actually been actually doing all my life, making movies," he pointed out in a blog post on Telegram.Russia has actually apprehended, fined as well as put behind bars hundreds of folks for resisting its Ukraine offensive because February 2022-- a suppression civil rights groups have actually matched up to the Soviet era.Rodnyansky began his career in Ukraine, where he founded the country's initial independent tv network in 1995, yet is actually much better recognized for his movie work in Russia.His 2017-produced film "Loveless" concerning a withheld couple compelled to cooperate after their kid goes missing out on won the Jury system Reward at the Cannes Movie Festivity.