Alexander Mzokov, 59, and his wife, who lived with their sons Yuri and Evgenii and eight of their relatives in a three-story home in Sochi, learned in April 2012 that the authorities would demolish their home of 13 years to make way for a road providing key transportation infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi. Although the Mzokovs had full legal title to the house and the land on which it stood, the authorities sued them for constructing an "illegal structure" and on appeal, won a court order to demolish the house, doing so on October 4, 2012. The authorities refused to provide the family with compensation.

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