.A Moscow courtroom punished Oscar-nominated movie manufacturer Alexander Rodnyansky to eight-and-a-half years jail in absentia on Monday for dispersing "phony" info about the Russian army.Rodnyansky, 63, was born in Kyiv however invested most of his job in Russia, producing lots of TV collection and motion pictures there certainly consisting of Oscar-nominated crime drama "Leviathan.".He left behind the country not long after it delivered soldiers right into Ukraine in February 2022 and also has been actually a forthright movie critic of the Kremlin's offensive due to the fact that, continuously denouncing it on social networking sites.Moscow's Basmanny Area Court of law located him bad of "dispersing knowingly untrue info regarding the use of the Russian armed forces," according to a statement through Moscow's court solution.Rodnyansky stated the case was actually connected to his "anti-war posts on Instagram" and said he highly differed along with the decision." No Basmanny court of law can quit me from and doing what I have actually been actually performing all my lifestyle, making films," he claimed in a post on Telegram.Russia has actually apprehended, fined and imprisoned 1000s of folks for resisting its own Ukraine aggression considering that February 2022-- a crackdown rights groups have contrasted to the Soviet era.Rodnyansky started his occupation in Ukraine, where he launched the country's first individual television network in 1995, yet is actually a lot better known for his film work in Russia.His 2017-produced movie "Loveless" about a withheld married couple forced to collaborate after their child goes missing succeeded the Court Award at the Cannes Film Event.