Last Updated: July 9, 2025

Natalya Vladimirovna PETROVA

Aliases

Наталья Владимировна ПЕТРОВА

Position

As judge of the Kirovsky District Court of Saint Petersburg, Natalya Petrova sentenced Olga Smirnova, architect and political activist, to 6 years imprisonment on politically-motivated charges for spreading so-called “fake news” about the Russian army. Olga Smirnova was arrested for publishing anti-war information on social media in a VK-group.

Linked to

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202500958

Other Information

(Date of UN designation: 2025-05-20)

Date of listing

2025-05-20

Program information

Authority

EU

Program

• Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Russia • Restrictive measures in view of Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine (sectoral restrictive measures)

Regime

EU country specific

Target State

Russia

Measures

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission, Other financial restrictions, Trade sanctions

Sanctions Portfolio

- All funds and economic resources beloning to, owned, held or controlled by any natural or legal person, enity or body listed in Annex IV of Regulation (EU) 2024/1485 shall be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them or to their benefit. - Member States shall take the necessary measures to ...

Official Information

Restrictive measures in view of Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine (sectoral restrictive measures) Since March 2014, the EU has progressively imposed restrictive measures (sanctions) against Russia targeting specific economic sectors in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol and the deliberate destabilisat...

Program URL

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02014D0512-20220604