The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg declared the family of Alexander and Lydia Nevzorov an “extremist association,” lawyer Alexey Pryanishnikov said in a telegram channel.
As the head of the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, Daria Lebedeva, clarifies, the court banned the activities of the Nevzorov family “in connection with the implementation of extremist activities.”
Pryanishnikov added that the court also satisfied the prosecutor’s claims and converted the Nevzorovs’ land plots, house, car and shares in the LLC into state income. According to the prosecutor’s office, Lebedeva notes, the property was used “to carry out extremist activities.” The decision is subject to immediate execution.
This is the first known case when a family was recognized as “extremist”. The prosecutor's office filed a corresponding claim in court in May; before this, the department unsuccessfully tried through the court to take away the land plots from the Nevzorovs.
Pryanishnikov emphasized that apart from three plots of land, the Nevzorov family itself has no other property in Russia. The house that was seized by the court is registered in the name of Lidia Nevzorova’s mother, she lives in it.
Publicist Alexander Nevzorov was declared a “foreign agent” in Russia, and was also sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison in the case of military “fakes” (clause “e” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).