A Russian FSB officer who ran a ‘Kremlin-insider’ Telegram channel is sentenced to 11 years for extorting a tech company

Mikhail Polyakov, administrator of the Telegram channel Kremlyovskaya Prachka, has been sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony on extortion charges, according to a correspondent for the Telegram channel Ostorozhno, Novosti, reporting from the courtroom.