Rosfinmonitoring, Russia’s financial monitoring agency, has added journalist and commentator Alexander Nevzorov to its list of “terrorists and extremists.”
Nevzorov left Russia shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. In 2022, Russian authorities designated him a “foreign agent.” In 2023, a Moscow court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of spreading “fake news” about the military.
A Russian court also declared Nevzorov and his wife, Lydia, an “extremist association.” They were added to the terrorist and extremist registry as an association. In spring 2025, authorities opened a criminal investigation into the couple for allegedly financing extremism by collecting donations for themselves.
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