{"id":241686,"date":"2025-09-22T06:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=241686"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:42:32","slug":"russian-arrested-and-accused-of-using-dr-as-base-to-spread-disinformation-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/russian-arrested-and-accused-of-using-dr-as-base-to-spread-disinformation-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian arrested and accused of using DR as base to spread disinformation on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Procuraduria-PGR-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241719\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Procuraduria-PGR-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Procuraduria-PGR-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Procuraduria-PGR-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Procuraduria-PGR-1536x826.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Procuraduria-PGR-2048x1101.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>25-year old Russian Dmitrii Novikov was arrested in the Dominican Republic. He was living with relatives in a villa in the Palmas del Sol II in the Bavaro section of Punta Cana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Attorney General Office says that he worked from here on the project known as Lakhta or The Company and carried out actions to spread disinformation and manipulate Internet platforms. The Attorney General Office said that the campaigns were directed at Dominican audiences and abroad, specifically mentioning Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrons covered the arrest and reported that the US Treasury Department says Project Lakhta is a Russian disinformation campaign targeting audiences in the United States, Europe, Ukraine and even Russia itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pgr.gob.do\/autoridades-arrestan-a-un-ciudadano-ruso-vinculado-al-proyecto-lakhta-o-la-compania\/\">Attorney General Office <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20250921\/ministerio-defensa-bloquea-intento-ciberataque-masivo-portales-institucionales_875158.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2025\/09\/19\/arrestan-a-dmitrii-novikov-por-vinculos-al-proyecto-lakhta\/3250426\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2025\/09\/21\/ministerio-de-defensa-denuncia-intento-de-ciberataque-masivo\/3252613\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0fHvJgSguiI\">Esta Misma Semana <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/russian-held-in-dominican-republic-over-disinformation-network-b253707b\">Barrons <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 September 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25-year old Russian Dmitrii Novikov was arrested in the Dominican Republic. He was living with relatives in a villa in the Palmas del Sol II in the Bavaro section of Punta Cana. The Attorney General Office says that he worked from here on the project known as Lakhta or The Company and carried out actions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/russian-arrested-and-accused-of-using-dr-as-base-to-spread-disinformation-on-the-internet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241756,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241686\/revisions\/241756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}