Russia hands 65-year-old Moldovan citizen 14 years in prison on treason charges over photos of Defense Ministry site
On Nov. 2, the Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced 65-year-old Russian and Moldovan citizen Natalia Slanovskaya to 14 years in a general-regime penal colony on charges of treason. According to a statement by the Krasnodar Region court system’s press service, the pensioner photographed a Russian Defense Ministry facility in February 2026 and sent the images to a representative of Moldovan…
On November 2, a Russian court sentenced 65-year-old Natalia Slanovskaya, a Russian and Moldovan citizen, to 14 years in a penal colony for treason. The court stated that she photographed a Russian Defense Ministry site in February 2026 and sent the images to a Moldovan intelligence representative. The court alleged that Moldova's intelligence service, acting on behalf of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), was behind Slanovskaya's actions.
Slanovskaya is claimed to have opposed Russia's war in Ukraine and secretly collaborated with Moldova's Main Counterintelligence Directorate. The court found no evidence to support this claim. Slanovskaya was born in Moldova and lived in Moscow, where she worked as an economist at Progressive Biomedical Technologies. She had previously traveled to Moldova and Ukraine before Russia's 2022 invasion.
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