St. Petersburg court orders exiled journalist Alexander Nevzorov and his family evicted from their former home
Acting on a claim by Russia's federal property agency, a court ruled that Nevzorov, his wife, son and 83-year-old mother-in-law may no longer use the house in Lisy Nos that the state had already confiscated, and cancelled their residence registrations.
A St. Petersburg court on Tuesday ordered the eviction of exiled journalist Alexander Nevzorov and his family from their former house, Meduza reported, citing the joint press service of the city’s courts.
The ruling
The Primorsky District Court sided with Russia’s Federal Property Management Agency (Rosimushchestvo). It ruled that Nevzorov, his wife Lidia, their son and his 83-year-old mother-in-law no longer have the right to use the house in Lisy Nos, a settlement on the northern edge of the city, and cancelled their residence registrations there.
How the state took the house
- In December 2024, a St. Petersburg court ordered the confiscation of the plot and house, which were registered to Nevzorov’s mother-in-law, Natalia Kolesnikova. She had bought the property from her daughter Lidia in August 2023, but the court declared the sale invalid.
- Nevzorov and his wife left Russia after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
A long list of cases
Russian authorities have designated Nevzorov a “foreign agent”, and a court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison for spreading “fake news” about the army. He and his wife were declared an “extremist association”, and the state confiscated their property in Russia. In spring 2025, investigators opened a criminal case against the couple on suspicion of “financing extremism” because they had asked the public for donations.
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