Maria Davydova, a 31-year-old mother of eight, is being held in pretrial detention in Moscow on a terrorism financing charge. New information about her family circumstances and criminal prosecution emerged from court documents highlighted by TASS and Mediazona on October 26.
According to a Moscow City Court ruling, Davydova was detained on the morning of July 2, 2026. A court ordered her remanded in custody the following day.
In September, the Moscow City Court upheld the pretrial detention order.
RIA Novosti previously reported, citing an unnamed source, that the charge concerned an alleged transfer of 15,000 rubles to Islamic State, which Russia has designated a terrorist organization and banned.
Davydova is charged under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of Russia's Criminal Code, concerning the financing of terrorism.
Information about the alleged transfer and its recipient comes from reports citing law enforcement sources. The circumstances of the financial transaction have not been independently verified.
The court documents state that Davydova has eight children, has a vocational education, is registered as self-employed and is not legally married.
However, the documents made public do not establish who has been caring for the children since she was placed in custody or what decisions, if any, child welfare authorities may have made.
Information about Davydova's private life and possible social media accounts requires particular caution because ownership of those accounts has not been established with sufficient confidence.
The criminal prosecution has been ongoing since July; it did not begin on October 26. The new development is the disclosure of additional information from court records.
No verdict on the merits of the charges has been identified in the available sources. Davydova retains the presumption of innocence.