OREANDA-NEWS  The Moscow City Court sentenced Maria Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova, director of the Narva Museum in Estonia, to 10 years in prison in absentia. This is reported by TASS with reference to a participant in the process.

The woman was found guilty under articles on the rehabilitation of Nazism and the dissemination of fakes about the Russian army. She was banned from managing websites on the Internet for five years.

As the court found, from 2023 to 2025, Smorzhevsky-Smirnova organized the placement of posters on one of the walls of Narva Castle during the celebration of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War. They depicted the President of Russia and contained false information about his war crimes.

After the incident, the woman was arrested in absentia in a criminal case and put on the international wanted list. The prosecutor requested 12 years in prison for her.

Earlier it became known that blogger and politician Maxim Katz (listed by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents), who was previously convicted of faking information about the Russian Armed Forces and accused of evading the duties of a foreign agent, was put on the wanted list in all Interpol member states.