MOSCOW, September 5 (RAPSI) – Varvara Karaulova (Alexandra Ivanova), the Moscow State University’s student, who stands charged with attempting to join the Islamic State militants in Syria, has filed a motion to close a case against her, RIA Novosti reported on Monday citing her lawyer Sergei Badamshin.

The accused and her defense have already finished reading the case materials, the agency quoted Badamshin as having said.

According to the usual procedure, in the near future the case will be forwarded to prosecutors for approving indictment and then it will be transferred to court.

As previously reported the second-year student of the Moscow State University’s Faculty of Philosophy, allegedly decided to join the Islamic State and secretly started off for Istanbul on May 27.

On June 4, she was arrested near Turkey's border with Syria along with 13 other Russian citizens when attempting to cross into the territory occupied by Islamic State militants. On June 11, she returned to Russia under escort of Interpol employees.

In October, Karaulova, who had changed her name to Alexandra Ivanova, was again arrested in Moscow and put in jail.

She has been found sane by the psychiatric evaluation.

The student did not plead guilty and stated that she was not going to become a terrorist.