Oksana Kazantseva
Oksana Kazantseva, born 1979, Stavropol Krai. Charges: Article 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries); “Oksana Kazantseva's case of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces”. Sentence (May 6, 2025): 2 years 6 months' suspended sentence with a ban on administering websites, forums, chat rooms and groups on social… Status: at large.
In brief
Sentence
2 years 6 months
suspended sentence with a ban on administering websites, forums, chat rooms and groups on social networks, digital or information telecommunication networks for two and a half years
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries
Full wording of the charges
In January 2024, Kazantseva was fined 30,000 rubles under an administrative article on discrediting the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences), details are unknown. According to the prosecution's version, Kazantseva published a comment from an anonymous profile in the chat room of Alexander Nevzorov's Telegram channel: "Your cotton-candy face alone is already like a big threat. She is just like the Russian military, who went to kill the brotherly people of Ukraine for a piece of meat. They are not just killers, but infanticide and rapists. I know it firsthand".
Latest event
April 22, 2026 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 6 months
Criminal case
Oksana Kazantseva's case of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces
- Case number
- 1-71/2025
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Zheleznovodsk (Stavropol Krai). She was prosecuted for discrediting the Armed Forces because of a comment condemning the invasion of Ukraine, which she published in a chat room of publicist Alexander Nevzorov's Telegram channel.
In March 2025, the case went to trial. On 6 May 2025, Kazantseva was sentenced to two and a half years' suspended sentence with a probation period of two years and a ban on administering websites, forums, chat rooms and groups on social networks for two and a half years.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.