St. Petersburg court orders exiled journalist Alexander Nevzorov and his family evicted from their former home
St. Petersburg’s Primorsky District Court ruled in favor of Russia’s Federal Property Management Agency and ordered journalist Alexander Nevzorov, his wife, his son, and his 83-year-old mother-in-law evicted from their former home in Lisy Nos, a settlement in the northern part of the city.
St. Petersburg's Primorsky District Court has ruled that exiled journalist Alexander Nevzorov and his family must be evicted from their former home in Lisy Nos. The court has canceled their residence registrations and determined they no longer possess the right to use the property. In December 2024, a previous court had ordered the seizure of a plot of land and a house belonging to Nevzorov's mother-in-law, Natalia Kolesnikova.
Kolesnikova had purchased the property from her daughter, Lidia Nevzorov, in August 2023, but the court annulled the sale. The journalist and his family fled Russia following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities have labeled Nevzorov as a "foreign agent" and sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison for spreading "fake news" about the military.
They have also classified him as an "extremist association." The state has confiscated their property in Russia. In spring 2025, law enforcement initiated a criminal investigation against the couple for allegedly financing extremism due to their fundraising efforts. Meduza, the news outlet reporting this story, is transparent about its use of artificial intelligence in the newsroom, with every draft reviewed by an editor before publication.
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