{"id":1061,"date":"2025-10-29T08:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:17:54","slug":"estonia-2-year-sentence-for-sanctions-offences-upheld-on-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/10\/29\/estonia-2-year-sentence-for-sanctions-offences-upheld-on-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia &#8211; 2 year sentence for sanctions offences upheld on appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1609824672\/circuit-court-upholds-estonian-journalist-s-treason-conviction\">Tallin Circuit Court<\/a> has denied an appeal from Svetlana Burtseva against a conviction for sanctions and treason offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/11\/estonia-conviction-and-2-year-sentence-for-making-economic-resources-available-to-a-designated-person\/\">earlier post<\/a>, Burtseva has been sentenced to 6 years in jail, of which 2 years were for the sanctions offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sanctions offence was the making of economic resources available to a sanctioned person. Ms Burceva worked for Russian state media outlet RIA Rossiya Segodnya, the head of which is Dmitry Kiselyov who is sanctioned by the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tallin Circuit Court has denied an appeal from Svetlana Burtseva against a conviction for sanctions and treason offences. As per our earlier post, Burtseva has been sentenced to 6 years in jail, of which 2 years were for the sanctions offence. The sanctions offence was the making of economic resources available to a sanctioned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/10\/29\/estonia-2-year-sentence-for-sanctions-offences-upheld-on-appeal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estonia &#8211; 2 year sentence for sanctions offences upheld on appeal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,2],"tags":[37,50,20,18],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-custodial-sentence","tag-estonia","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-russia"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}