Perm’s Leninsky District Court on October 14 changed the pretrial measure for Berezniki activists Irina Fayzulina and Elena Guseva, who are charged in a case over donations to structures investigators associate with FBK. Both women were released from pretrial detention and placed under house arrest until December 14.
According to the Telegram channel Perm 36.6 and OVD-Info, the court barred them from using communications or the internet and from contacting anyone except close relatives living with them. Fayzulina was also forbidden from communicating with her husband, rights defender Artem Fayzulin, who is a witness in her case.
Irina Fayzulina and Elena Guseva were arrested in late August 2025. On August 28, Judge Marina Yakutova ordered Fayzulina held until October 15 and Guseva until October 20; at the FSB’s request, both hearings were closed. On September 3, 2025, the Perm Regional Court upheld that ruling.
Fayzulina is accused of making seven transfers of 300 rubles each, for a total of 2,100 rubles, after FBK had been declared an extremist organization. Guseva, according to the report, is accused over a 3,500-ruble transfer. The project Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial said it considers both women political prisoners.
As Novaya Gazeta Europe reported, this was not the first pressure on their families. On March 14, 2024, security officers searched Artem Fayzulin, as well as Guseva and activist Irina Lyashchenko, as part of the case against former Perm Navalny штаб coordinator Sergei Ukhov. No charges were brought against them at that time.
The publication notes that prosecutions over donations to FBK continue in Russia: open sources mention about 80 criminal cases, and roughly 50 court rulings are known. Most have ended in fines or suspended sentences, but in at least 11 cases courts have imposed real prison terms.