Estonia Imposes Sanctions on Persecutors of Narva Museum Director

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs imposed sanctions on the persecutors of Narva Museum director Maria Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova, with whose participation a Russian court sentenced her to prison in absentia.

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Estonia has banned Russian prosecutor Lyudmila Balandina and Moscow City Court judge Dmitry Gordeev from entering the country for prosecuting Maria Smorzhevsky-Smirnova, director of the Narva Museum. This is reported by ERR with reference to the Estonian Foreign Ministry. In September 2025, Gordeev sentenced Smorzhevsky-Smirnova in absentia to 10 years in a minimum security penal colony on charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army and…