Yekaterina Besikiyevna Kotrikadze[a] (Russian: Екатерина Бесикиевна Котрикадзе; Georgian: ეკატერინე კოტრიკაძე, romanized: Ekaterine Kotrikadze; born 23 March 1984) is a Georgian-Russian journalist and media manager, host of the TV Rain channel and the former head of the information service of the RTVI TV channel.
[4][5] From 2003 to 2005, Ekaterina worked on the Dangerous Zone (Russian: Опасная зона) programme on the TVC channel.
[8] In October 2009, she became one of the founders of the Russian-language television channel the First informational Caucasian [ka; ru] (FIC), which was created in Georgia.
In February 2018, she accused Leonid Slutsky, a member of the Russian State Duma from the Liberal Democratic Party, of sexual harassment.
[13] In April 2019, she was invited as a speaker on the topic of the safety of journalists at the international journalism festival in Perugia, Italy.