Natalya Nikolaevna Dudar was appointed a criminal judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow in October 1999. Since then, many have passed through her courtroom. Dudar imposed preventive measures on at least 13 defendants in the Bolotnaya case - extended arrests and rejected complaints against investigators. Also on account of her arrests in many high-profile criminal cases.

Arrest of Platon Lebedev in the Yukos case

In 2003, the judge of the same Basmanny court, Natalya Dudar, issued an arrest warrant for the head of the Menatep MFO, Platon Lebedev. The meetings were not without scandals - Lebedev said that he did not see the case materials well and asked for at least a magnifying glass, but Dudar refused the petition filed three times. The court refused to grant the defense motion to challenge the judge. In addition, in the case on the extension of Lebedev's arrest, the lawyers found a power of attorney with which the prosecutor came to the meeting. It turned out that this was a power of attorney for another case. Despite the gross violation of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the challenge to Judge Dudar was also not satisfied. Dudar did not allow lawyers to separate meetings at all.

The judge personally issued an illegal decision to detain Lebedev, in absentia - to the head of the legal department of Yukos, Dmitry Gololobov, and co-owner of Menatep Group, Mikhail Brudno. She extended the detention on similar charges to the seriously ill Vasily Aleksanyan.

Recall that Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of Menatep, Platon Lebedev, and the head of Volna CJSC, Anton Krainov, were sentenced in 2005 for embezzlement, fraud, and theft on a large scale as part of the group. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev each received 9 years in prison, Krainov - 5 years probation.

The Yves Rocher case against Alexei and Oleg Navalny

In 2014, Judge Dudar tried the Navalny brothers in the Yves Rocher case. They were accused of embezzling more than 26 million rubles from Yves Rocher Vostok and more than 4 million rubles from the Diversified Processing Company. In relation to Alexei Navalny, within the framework of this criminal case, the preventive measure was changed from a written undertaking not to leave the place to house arrest.

In the course of the case, Dudar granted the petition of the investigation, which believes that the defense and the accused Oleg Navalny deliberately delay familiarization with the materials, and limited the time for familiarization. Navalny's defense, in turn, objected to the restrictions, noting that since December they have read half of the 129 volumes. The accused himself asked the court to give him at least two months to study the materials, specifying that during visits to the Investigative Committee, he and his lawyer take photographs of the materials in order to study them in more detail later, therefore, the familiarization schedule states that they study each volume according to half an hour.

Case of Ildar Dadin

Judge Dudar is also known for the case of Ildar Dadin, who became the first in a series of sentences under the anti-constitutional article 212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on repeated violations of the rules for holding street events. On December 7, 2015, the judge of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, Natalia Dudar , sentenced Dadin to three years of general regime. The activist was found guilty of participating in protests on August 6, August 23, September 13 and December 5, 2014. On March 31, 2016, Moscow City Court judge Natalya Borisova reduced the sentence to 2.5 years.

Arrests of DOXA editors

Natalya Dudar chose a measure of restraint for the editors of the DOXA publication, who were tried for an opposition video. She repeatedly extended the ban on certain actions to Natasha Tyshkevich, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metelkin and Armen Aramyan. Editors were allowed to leave their homes for one minute a day. Later this time was extended to two hours. They were also forbidden to use means of communication.

Before that, searches were carried out at the journalists' premises in connection with the case of involving minors in committing unlawful acts that knowingly pose a danger to their lives via the Internet (clauses “a” and “c” of part 2 of article 151.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the video, for the publication of which they were tried, the editors of the magazine said that because of the actions in support of Alexei Navalny, universities and schools threaten students with expulsion, put pressure on teachers, teachers and parents.

“DOXA has removed the video from the YouTube channel, but it is still available on our Instagram,” the magazine wrote after that. DOXA also filed a lawsuit to invalidate the Roskomnadzor warning.

The case of the “assassination attempt” on Vladimir Solovyov

On April 26, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Vasily Strizhakov and Alexander Druzhinin, residents of the capital, suspected of plotting to assassinate prominent TV journalists. The decision was made by Judge Dudar. The process, at the request of the prosecutor, was held behind closed doors, since the case materials contain information related to the security of the state.

Also in this case, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sent to the pre-trial detention center three more defendants in the criminal case on the preparation of the murder of propagandist Vladimir Solovyov - Andrei Pronsky, Vladimir Belyakov and Vladimir Stepanov. They are suspected of obstructing journalistic activities with the threat of violence (part 3 of article 144 of the Criminal Code) and preparing to kill a person in connection with his official activities by a group of persons for hire in a generally dangerous way (part 1 of article 30; subparagraphs "b", "e", "g" and "z" part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code).

The fact that an assassination attempt was allegedly being prepared on Solovyov was reported by Vladimir Putin. “The FSB authorities stopped the activities of a terrorist group that planned the attack and murder of one of the well-known Russian journalists,” Putin said during a meeting of the board of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office. According to Russian state media reports, the assassination attempt was prepared by order of the Security Service of Ukraine.