The court found that Svetlana Burceva had worked with a reserve officer of Russia’s FSB security service in “activities against the independence and sovereignty” of Estonia.
Burceva, referred to as Burtseva by Russian media, has 30 days to appeal.
A book they published about hybrid warfare was “a propagandist work that lacks the hallmarks of independent analysis”, the court said.
Its already tense ties with Moscow have deteriorated dramatically over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
She had been working with Estonian online sites controlled by Russia’s Rossiya Segodnya media group since 2017.
She was detained on February 28, 2024 and the court said that her sentence would apply from the day of her detention.
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