Kseniia Garina
Kseniia Garina, born 1997, Irkutsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Financing of extremist activities); “Ksenia Garina's case of financing extremist activities”, opened on December 8, 2025. Status: location unknown. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, April 30, 2025.
In brief
Irkutsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast · Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk · Extremism cases
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Preventive measure: pre-trial detention since December 10, 2025
Charges
- Article 116 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
- Article 282.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code — Involvement of a person in extremist community activities
- Article 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in an extremist community
- Article 321 part 3 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
- Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Financing of extremist activities
Latest event
October 20, 2026 — case status changed
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, April 30, 2025
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Timeline
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №5 (SIZO-5) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Oblast
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
· Criminal case opened
Ksenia Garina's case of financing extremist activities
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of Anti Pytki project
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №6 (SIZO-6) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Oblast
Criminal case
Ksenia Garina's case of financing extremist activities
- Case number
- 1-384/2026
The case of Anti Pytki project
Other defendants in the case
- Nikita Evshin — Location unknown
- Olga Korneva — Imprisoned
- Victoria Kutilova — Location unknown
- Unknown female 60 — Imprisoned
- Zaidulla Rezvanov — Location unknown
- Roman Rugevich — Not in Russia
- Elvira Sayfullina — Location unknown
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Tulun (Irkutsk region). Has been working for a security company and raising a four-year-old son. She joined the "AntiPytki" project, which reports on violations of prisoners' rights and publishes data of convicts who cooperate with prison guards, and started correcting spelling mistakes in prisoners' complaints. On 30 October 2024, she was detained after a search, taken to Irkutsk and placed in custody on charges of involvement in an extremist community in connection with the activities of the project.
On 5 June 2025, another case was opened against her - on incitement to disorganise the colony's activities and battery. According to the investigation, the posts published by Garina in the social networks of the project incited prisoners to 3 attacks on "activists". The posts provided the personal data of the "activists" and asked for reports on cases of violence on their part, but did not call for attacks on them. This case was merged with the main case of the project.
In December 2025, when Garina's arrest on the extremist organisation case was about to expire, she was detained on her way out of the pre-trial detention centre on a new case. She was accused of financing extremist activities because of transfers totalling 993 rubles to another person prosecuted in the project case, Roman Rugevich, who was abroad. According to Garina, she transferred money to him to compensate for the cost of letters to her husband.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.