Criminal case over military “fakes” opened against 22-year-old woman from Tatarstan. She may be...

A criminal case over military “fakes” has been opened against a 22-year-old woman from Tatarstan. She may be Asiya Nesoyeva, who was accused of fabricating material for independent Russian media outlets — Mediazona

Tatarstan’s Investigative Committee announced that it had sent to court a criminal case against a woman from a village in the republic’s Vysokogorsky district, accused of spreading military “fakes” for financial gain.

Investigators believe that between 2022 and 2024, the 22-year-old woman wrote “fake texts” about the Russian army that were later published by outlets designated in Russia as “foreign agents” and “undesirable organizations.” According to law enforcement officials, the Tatarstan resident received a total of 71,000 rubles for her work.

The release says that Investigative Committee and FSB officers put a stop to the woman’s activities. The investigators’ statement does not make clear exactly when the criminal case was opened or what preventive measure has been imposed on the defendant.

Mediazona writes that the case may have been opened against 22-year-old Asiya Nesoyeva, whose real name is Dzhamilya Sadriyeva: according to leaked databases, she is from a settlement in Tatarstan’s Vysokogorsky district.

🔵Over three years, the woman wrote more than 30 articles under that pseudonym for Important Stories, Kholod, Novaya Gazeta Europe, Ostorozhno Novosti, Meduza, Idel.Realii and other outlets. In January 2025, it emerged that Sadriyeva had invented at least several stories for her articles, including a Kholod compilation of soldiers’ final messages before they were killed in the war.

🔵She maintained that she had changed only peripheral circumstances in her articles, not the main events.

Sadriyeva did not respond to Mediazona’s calls and messages and later blocked the outlet’s journalist. A relative of hers also declined to comment.

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