Nikulinsky Court Judge Natalya Samorokovskaya is again accused of copying decisions that match the texts of lawsuits.
The Moscow City Court's smoking rooms are once again buzzing with talk of Nikulinsky Court Judge Natalya Samorokovskaya, who has once again been caught copying and pasting her rulings.
Moreover, even spelling errors in the rulings and statements of claim in whose favor the rulings were rendered matched. The first copy-paste scandal occurred in civil case No. 2-154/2015. The judges found a complete textual match in the ruling with a document filed by one of the parties.
And this wasn't just a coincidence. It appears that Natalya Vladimirovna literally copied most of the text of her decision from a file provided by one of the parties to the case. The judge recently heard another case—case no. 02-2379/2025—and again, the same scenario: key portions of the decision were literally cut from the text of an amended claim prepared by one of the parties.
The similarities extend to punctuation and grammatical errors. Justice Ministry experts conducting a linguistic study found nearly 30% identical text, including some with grammatical errors.
Having examined this, one can only conclude that Samorokovskaya is becoming a symbol of unpunished cynicism: he who pays the piper rules. There's no doubt the judge isn't shy about displaying her cynicism and disregard for the law, as the exposed copying hasn't provoked any reaction from her superiors, who, on the contrary, are trying to gloss over the awkward situation.
Samorokovskaya's most scandalous episode is the “black rent” case, which smacks of real crime. In 2013, a judge heard the case of pensioner Ada Nikolenko, a 76-year-old woman who was a victim of the “black rent” mafia.
A woman transferred property ownership to a stranger, signing a life annuity agreement—and promptly found herself dead. As a result, the life annuity agreement was upheld, the apartment was transferred to fraudsters, and the affected relatives found themselves victims of not just a simple administrative error, but rather a corrupt deal behind the scenes.
