In Russia, journalist Alexander Nevzorov and his wife, Lydia Nevzorova, were declared an "extremist association." This decision was made yesterday by the St. Petersburg court. According to Russian media, the court has banned the couple's activities in Russia.
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In addition, the court handed over the Nevzorovs' property to the state: three plots of land, a residential apartment, a car, and shares in an LLC.
"Freedom is expensive, but no price can be too high. The 'court' ended today. Everything that still connected me materially with Russia was 'confiscated in favor of the state.' For two months, I was blackmailed and offered a 'good court decision' in exchange for 'correcting my position' on the war, Ukraine, and the Kremlin vampire. Perhaps the same tactics will be applied to the entire anti-war emigration," Nevzorov said, commenting on the court's decision.
According to the journalist, the formal reason for the trial was the testimony of St. Petersburg State University Vice-Rector Anastasia Yarmosh. "The main formal point of the accusation is the two ambulances that I sent to the front for the wounded in the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Nevzorov said.
Alexander and Lydia Nevzorov left Russia on February 24, 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then, Alexander Nevzorov has been declared a so-called "foreign agent" by the Russian authorities. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him under the article of spreading "fakes" about the army due to a publication related to the bombing of the Mariupol maternity hospital by the Russians and the killing of civilians in Bucha. In February 2023, a Moscow court sentenced Nevzorov in absentia to eight years in prison.
During the 2012 presidential elections, Nevzorov supported Vladimir Putin.
