Nick Shchetko is a senior digital editor for Current Time TV, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
A Current Time TV investigation has identified the Russian citizen arrested earlier this month in Prague on suspicion of involvement in the hacking of U.S. websites as a 30-year-old Muscovite.
The now-50-year-old Astakhov shocked Russians and others alike in June when he quipped to child survivors of a deadly boating tragedy, "So how was the swim?"
