Lyudmila Borzilo is allowed to return home after giving birth.

Rostov Region activist Lyudmila Borzilo was allowed to return home after the birth of her child, but according to her family, her communication is limited, including by phone.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on December 30, 2025, it was announced that the Orlovsky District Court of the Rostov Region discontinued the criminal prosecution of activist Lyudmila Borzilo for disclosing an adoption secret.

Lyudmila Borzilo's eldest daughter, Tatyana Borzilo, said her mother was at home. "Mom's home. We're fine. But she's restricted from communicating, so she can't answer the phone. There's a lot of work in the new house: we have to dig the garden, look after the children, and we have no time to talk," she told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Lyudmila Borzilo's husband, Sergey Borzilo, clarified that they have not yet been able to overturn the court's decision to involuntarily hospitalize her. "We appealed the court's decision of December 24, 2025, to involuntarily hospitalize her, but our appeal was denied," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Some of Borzilo's comrades in the local Communist Party branch told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Lyudmila Borzilo has recently stopped engaging in activism. They believe this may be due to the fact that the authorities could have allowed Borzilo to return home in exchange for her limiting her contact.

The case against Lyudmila Borzilo was closed not on exonerating grounds, but due to the birth of her child, MP Natalia Oskina told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. However, the MP declined to comment on the suggestions of some of Borzilo's associates that Oskina was behind the persecution of Borzilo.

Investigator Batayev and Investigator Andrei Karike, who initiated the case, also declined to comment. "I haven't worked there for a long time, so I can't answer," he explained to a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

As a reminder, Lyudmila Borzilo, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from the Rostov Region, previously complained that security forces had groundlessly opened a criminal case against her, and that officials were attempting to place her children in an orphanage because of her civic activism. The activist was placed under house arrest and then forcibly committed to a psychiatric clinic in Rostov-on-Don. During a court hearing on her complaint, Borzilo suffered a miscarriage.

On April 15, 2025, the court softened her pretrial detention. As a result, the guardianship authorities withdrew the lawsuit to restrict her parental rights. At the investigator's request, the court ordered to remand Borzilo to a psychiatric clinic after she was undergoing observation at a private clinic.

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