Moldova's embassy in Moscow has asked Russian authorities for official information about the case of Natalia Slanovskaya, whom a Russian court sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony on a treason charge. Moldova's Foreign Ministry said on November 3 that it had not yet received a response, according to Moldova 1.
The ministry said it was in contact with the embassy and trying to determine whether consular assistance could be provided. It noted that Russia's treason statute applies to Russian nationals. Because Slanovskaya holds both Russian and Moldovan citizenship, the ministry said Russian authorities might treat her solely as a Russian citizen and restrict the information given to Moldovan diplomats. That is a concern expressed by Chișinău, not a refusal announced by Moscow.
The Krasnodar Regional Court pronounced its verdict on November 2, sentencing the 65-year-old to 14 years in a general-regime penal colony under Article 275 of Russia's Criminal Code. According to the Russian court press service's account, she photographed a Defense Ministry facility and passed the images to a representative of Moldovan counterintelligence who was allegedly acting in the interests of Ukraine's Security Service. Those allegations come from Russian authorities.
The Insider identified the convicted woman from a video of the verdict being delivered, in which the judge stated her name and date of birth. Her name was concealed in the publicly available court record for case No. 2-118/2026.