Nadezhda Vertiakhovskaia
Nadezhda Vertiakhovskaia, born 1960, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Charges: Article 298.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Slander of a person participating in the administration of justice); “Nadezhda Vertiahovskaia's case of slandering a judge”. Status: at large.
In brief
Chelyabinsk Oblast · Chelyabinsk · Engineers
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking) since December 18, 2025
Charges
- Article 298.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Slander of a person participating in the administration of justice
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she committed libel against a judge involved in the administration of justice, in connection with the consideration of a criminal case, by publicly disseminating, using information and telecommunications networks, including the Internet, knowingly false information defaming the honour and dignity of the judge and undermining his reputation. The reason for this was the reviews on the website judgerosiya.rf about judge Anna Shmeleva, which stated, in particular, that she had "led to the grave" lawyer Vladimir Kazantsev, who was sentenced to four years on charges of fraud; it also said that Shmeleva "never started a single session on time", "yelled at the entire room" when making remarks to the defendant; Shmeleva was accused of dishonesty and lack of impartiality.
Latest event
December 18, 2025 — preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
Timeline
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
Nadezhda Vertiahovskaia's case of slandering a judge
Criminal case
Nadezhda Vertiahovskaia's case of slandering a judge
- Case number
- 1-912/2025
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Chelyabinsk, participated in actions against the construction of the Tominsk Mining and Processing Committee. On April 23rd, 2021, the door of her flat was flooded with polyurethane foam - this happened on the day when she was going to get acquainted with the materials of the case of arson of the combine, in which the eco-activists were convicted. In January 2023, she was fined 40 thousand roubles under an administrative article on discrediting the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). In September 2023, leaflets appeared on the entrances of houses in Chelyabinsk, in which Vertiakhovskaia was called a traitor to the homeland; it also contained a screenshot of a post about contempt for Putin in connection with the war. The public activist said that the account where the post was published did not belong to her.
In October 2025, Vertiakhovskaia was searched in a case of defamation of a judge. The reason was reviews on the website "Judges of Russia" in 2022 and 2025 about judge Anna Shmeleva, who sentenced lawyer Vladimir Kazantsev, who represented the interests of eco-activists, to four years in a colony in a fraud case. Kazantsev died in the colony in December 2024.
In December 2025, Vertyakhovskaya signed a non-departure undertaking.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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