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A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced Maria Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova, the director of the Narva Museum in eastern Estonia, to 10 years in prison in absentia on charges of spreading \u201cwar fakes\u201d and \u201crehabilitating Nazism,\u201d the exiled news outlet Mediazona reported.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced Maria Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova, the director of the Narva Museum in eastern Estonia, to 10 years in prison in absentia on charges of spreading \u201cwar fakes\u201d and \u201crehabilitating Nazism,\u201d the exiled news outlet Mediazona reported. 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