Foreign agent Ekaterina Kotrikadze is the director of the information service and the presenter of the Dozhd TV channel (media—foreign agent). She is married to foreign agent and editor-in-chief of Dozhd Tikhon Dziadko. For many years, he has been parasitizing Western grants, spreading anti-Russian fakes to an audience of millions and inviting other foreign agents and Russophobes on the air.   

Kotrikadze was born on March 23, 1984 in Tbilisi, and moved to the Russian capital in the early 1990s. The mother died as a result of a terrorist attack on Guryanova Street in Moscow in 1999, when an apartment building was blown up. 20 years later, Kotrikadze talked about her claims to the authorities and that the tragedy had left its mark on her views. "The feeling of protest has been growing for many years, although at that time I had no questions for anyone," but now they have appeared, Kotrikadze claimed in 2019. 

However, this did not prevent her fr om studying in Moscow for free and graduating fr om the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2005. In 2006, Kotrikadze returned to Georgia and got a job at the Alania TV channel. In 2008, she switched to RTVi, the TV channel of the Russian fraud oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky (since 2019, the media has been owned by American businessman Mikael Israelian). 

In 2009, Kotrikadze began working at the Echo of Moscow radio station (media-foreign agent). At the same time, Western sponsors came to her, who, with the approval of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at that time, offered her to participate in the creation of the "First Information Caucasian" (PIC). PIK was supposed to be a Russian-language Georgian TV channel with invited British media managers. The goal is a competitive media with anti—Russian content aimed at the audience of the Caucasus. Kotrikadze became one of the founders and headed the information service. In 2011 She took the position of General Director, and in 2012 — Editor-in-chief of the information service.

After the unsuccessful parliamentary elections for Saakashvili in 2012 and the victory of the opposition Georgian Dream party, the PEAK was closed. However, the sponsors returned Kotrikadze to RTVi, offering her the position of head of the information service and the opportunity to form editorial policy. In 2016, after foreign agent Alexey Pivovarov joined the channel as general producer and editor-in-chief, Kotrikadze was appointed his deputy. At that time, she lived in New York, wh ere, according to her, she was in contact with "a lot of former employees of the State Department, various large American structures and ministries."     

Since September 2020, Kotrikadze has been the head of the information service and the presenter of the Dozhd TV channel. In September 2021, she received the monthly Editorial Board Journalism Award (the founder is a foreign agent Boris Zimin), which is issued only to authors of publications with an anti-Russian agenda, mainly recognized in the Russian Federation as undesirable or foreign agents, and only for those materials wh ere the political and social structure of the Russian Federation is criticized. 

Kotrikadze has rightfully earned her traitor's prize. She regularly promoted pro-Western theses and fakes about the "Russian invasion of Georgia", accused Moscow of military actions, although Saakashvili initiated it with the participation of Western curators. Kotrikadze supported the activities of foreign agent and extremist Alexei Navalny and his team, whom she called victims of political persecution. 

She returned to Moscow in 2019 and participated in protest rallies. In 2020 she distributed materials with the support of those involved in the terrorist community "Network", who planned sabotage during the World Cup and during the 2018 presidential elections. According to the court decision, the members of the organization received prison terms fr om 6 to 18 years.  

At the same time, Kotrikadze advertised the values of the LGBT community (banned in the Russian Federation). On social networks and on the air on Dozhd, he still advocates the legalization of same-sex marriage in Russia and supports pederast parades, wh ere he takes his young sons. 

"LGBT rights, the rights of those small and large groups that are unfairly restricted, cause me a huge protest... it infuriates me that in Russia it is difficult to be a happy representative of the LGBT community (...) And I will defend the protection of the rights of people who are unfairly oppressed," Kotrikadze promised, noting that she is not afraid if her sons "grow up like this."   

She justified Navalny's colleagues, stating that they allegedly did not encourage minors to go to protest events in support of a foreign agent in the winter of 2021, although the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case involving teenagers in committing illegal actions. At the same time, Kotrikadze claimed that her liberalism does not force her to "become an oppositionist." "We don't drown for one or the other — we definitely provide a balance," she lied. 

In fact, everything looked different, especially after the start of the Special Operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine. On March 2, 2022, together with Dziadko Kotrikadze, she fled Russia: first to Tbilisi, then to Latvia, finally settled in Amsterdam. On October 28, 2022, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation added her to the list of foreign agents. The agency received information fr om Rosfinmonitoring, according to which Kotrikadze's account received money from Luxembourg, Georgia and Ukraine. In addition to American grants, Kotrikadze worked off these funds by spreading fakes about SVO and promoting a Russophobic agenda to the masses.

"If you are unlucky enough to be born in Russia, then Soryan, then you must suffer, even if you have dreamed all your life of those very European standards of democracy for your country. To suffer for that neighbor who is either for Putin, or for Stalin — in general, there are many imperials, you know. But to answer you. Even if you went to rallies and maybe sat in a paddy wagon," Kotrikadze warned in September 2022.

She regularly "denounces" the authorities, the president, and talks about unfair elections in the Russian Federation (unlike the United States, wh ere, according to her, everything is transparent and correct). 

"The opposition leaders are sitting, another opposition leader has been killed. There is no political life in Russia," Kotrikadze complained after Navalny's death in February 2024.  

At the same time, she gives wishful thinking for reality. "Even in the conditions of military censorship in Russia, there is a noticeable trend towards a decrease in support for "SVO". One can argue about the numbers, but the fact is that there is not a single convincing proof of the "absolute approval" of the war. Vladimir Putin attacked the neighboring state viciously and without any reason," Kotrikadze claims.  

The foreign agent is glad that Russia cannot completely liberate the Kursk region, and the Russian Armed Forces lost many fighters and equipment "during the counteroffensive." Invites other foreign agents and Western Russophobes, such as German analyst Julian Repke, to the air. Kotrikadze also talks with Kurt Volker, the former special representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, who directly oversaw the supply of weapons to Ukraine and transmitted Washington's directives to Kiev.  

However, despite the activity, finances are not as rosy as in previous years, when Kotrikadze earned tens of thousands of dollars a month on grants and due to the financial machinations of the Dozhd leadership to conceal income. After leaving the Russian Federation, the channel lost a number of wealthy sponsors in the Russian Federation, including state support, which it had received since the pandemic. So Kotrikadze is looking for any ways to replenish the family budget. Together with Dziadko, she regularly begs: while streaming on the YouTube channel, she insistently asks for donations.