The State Prosecution requested a five-year prison term for Zhanna Nemtsova in the case of leadership of an "undesirable" organization in Russia. The prosecutor requested a five-year prison term for the daughter of politician Boris Nemtsov, Zhanna, in the case of organizing the work of an "undesirable" organization (Part 3 of Section 284.1 of the Criminal Law). This was reported by Mediazona. Nemtsova herself wrote that the reason for the case is the Boris Nemtsova Foundation for Freedom, which she founded in Germany in 2015. The Russian authorities declared it an "undesirable" organization in April 2024. According to the lawsuit, Namtsova "organizes" the financing and functioning of the organization, and also "gives a negative characterization of various events taking place in the Russian Federation."
At the end of July 2026, the Zamoshbortsky District Court in Moscow arrested her in absentia in this criminal case, and in September she was put on the international wanted list. In September 2026, the Foundation for Democracy and Liberal Values (FDLV), headed by Nemtsova, was also recognized as an "undesirable" organization in Russia. In October, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Nemtsova in the "foreign agents" registry. One of the leaders of the Russian opposition, Boris Nemtsov, was killed on February 27, 2015 on the Bolshoi Moskvortsky Bridge in central Moscow. The planners of the murder have not yet been found. In the summer of 2015, Zhanna Nemtsova left Russia.