A resident of Stavropol has been accused of financing extremists.

A native of the Alexandrovsky district will stand trial in Stavropol due to seven donations to an extremist organization.

The accused is 32 years old. He is charged under the article on financing extremist activities (part 1 of article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), which provides for a prison sentence of three to eight years or up to four years of forced labor.

According to the investigation, from August 2021 to February 2022, the man transferred money to the account of an organization recognized as extremist and liquidated by court decision seven times. The accused, according to the case materials, was aware of the organization's banned status.

The case has been referred to the Industrial District Court of Stavropol, the regional prosecutor's Telegram channel reported. The prosecutor's message does not disclose the occupation of the accused or the name of the organization to which he transferred money. It also does not specify whether he agreed with the charges.

There are two cases in the court's database regarding financing extremists, which were submitted for consideration on June 30; they have been assigned to different judges; the names of the accused in all records are hidden. The "Caucasian Knot" currently does not have comments from the accused or his defense.

"Caucasian Knot" reported 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 a donation of 2,100 rubles to the FBK*, and Ilya Bazikalov from Astrakhan was sentenced to a fine of 500,000 rubles.

At the end of May 2025, the court imposed one and a half years of forced labor on Krasnodar resident Dmitry Dyba, whose donations amounted to 1,050 rubles. The regional court subsequently overturned the sentence and sent Dyba's case for retrial. Following the review in March, Dyba was fined 300,000 rubles.

* "Anti-Corruption Foundation" (FBK) is included in the register of foreign agents, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation. The founder of the fund, Alexei Navalny, was included in the list of extremists and terrorists by Rosfinmonitoring 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" material "Navalny: the Caucasian dimension" outlines the opposition leader's views on issues related to the Caucasus.

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