He was born on 3 August 1958 and worked as a Russian and Ukrainian television journalist, film director. In the past he was also a member of the Russian State Duma.
In 1994 Nevzorov was a vocal supporter of the initiation of the First Chechen War. In 1997 he wrote and directed the TV film Chistilishche (“Purgatory”) about the Chechen war, co-produced with Boris Berezovsky and released in March 1998. As the Chechen War dragged on, his views changed and he became skeptical of Russian imperialism. He regretted his past nationalist positions, and said in 2015 about his involvement in Nashi:
I experimented with fascism in laboratory, soft forms. I don’t have to spend my whole life following ideas whose delusion has become obvious to me.
In 2003 Nevzorov collaborated with the ORT TV channel and often appeared as a political commentator on Sergey Dorenko’s Saturday night news show.
In 2012, Nevzorov supported Vladimir Putin during his presidential campaign, and was his authorised representative. In 2014, however, Nevzorov opposed the Russian annexation of Crimea.
In a video posted to YouTube on 11 April 2021, Nevzorov predicted that a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine would end in tragedy and humiliation for Russia. He also predicted fierce Ukrainian resistance.[Esquire]
On 22 March 2022, Nevzorov was charged under Russia’s “false information” law after he published information that Russian forces had shelled a maternity hospital in Mariupol.[a-i] Under a new law passed on 4 March, he could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
Nevzorov said that Vladimir Putin’s “regime is not going to spare anyone, and that any attempts to comprehend the criminal war [in Ukraine] will end in prison.” Nevzorov’s wife Lidia stated on social media that her husband was in Israel.
On 22 April 2022, Nevzorov was added to the list of individuals acting as foreign agents.
In June 2022, Nevzorov and his wife Lidia submitted an application to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for Ukrainian citizenship. On 3 June, Nevzorov and the State Migration Service of Ukraine confirmed that Nevzorov and his wife had received Ukrainian citizenship. On 6 June, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov stated that Nevzorov did not yet have citizenship, but that he had only applied for it.