A Stavropol resident has been accused of financing extremists.

A resident of Mikhaylovsk has been charged with financing extremist activity due to a money transfer made in August 2021.

The accused, a 37-year-old resident of Stavropol, is charged. The prosecution was based on data from the regional FSB department and documents from the Ministry of Internal Affairs' economic security department in the Shpakovsky District.

According to law enforcement, the woman "systematically viewed materials from an organization on a popular video hosting site," which Russian authorities designated as extremist and liquidated. She shared the organization's ideas and intentionally transferred money to its account through a bank's mobile app by clicking on a link under a video, according to a statement from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Stavropol.

The prosecutor's office confirmed that the case of the Mikhaylovsk resident has been referred to court. The agency notes that the woman made the money transfer that became the basis for the prosecution in August 2021.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office did not specify whether the accused admitted her guilt or what preventive measure was chosen for her. The case file with the accused's name is not available on the website of the Shpakovsky District Court.

The charge of financing extremist activity (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Russian Criminal Code) carries a sentence of three to eight years in prison. Residents of southern Russia have been repeatedly prosecuted under this article for donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation*. The organization was designated as extremist in August 2021, so transfers sent since then became the basis for the prosecution of the donors.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that in September 2025, the Anapa District Court sentenced Alexander Protasov to a fine of 500,000 rubles for transferring 500 rubles to the FBK*. Earlier, Krasnodar resident Sergey Anosov received a fine of 600,000 rubles for donating 2,100 rubles to the FBK*, and Ilya Bazikalov from Astrakhan was sentenced to a fine of 500,000.

At the end of May 2025, the court sentenced one and a half years of forced labor to Krasnodar resident Dmitry Dyba, whose donations amounted to 1,050 rubles. The regional court subsequently overturned the sentence and remitted Dyba's case for a new trial.

* The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) is included in the register of foreign agents, designated as extremist, and banned in the Russian Federation. The foundation's founder, Alexei Navalny, was added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of extremists and terrorists and was sentenced to 19 years in prison for extremism. He died in prison in February 2024. Navalny is recognized as a "prisoner of conscience." The "Caucasian Knot" article "Navalny: The Caucasian Dimension" outlines the opposition leader's views on issues related to the Caucasus.

** The activities of Meta (which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia.