- Category
- Latest news
Ukraine Targets “Cultural Colonization” With Sanctions on Russian Academics
- Authors
![Photo of Roman Kohanets]( "Photo of Roman Kohanets")
-111f0e5095e02c02446ffed57bfb0ab1.jpeg "Photo of Roman Kohanets")
Ukraine imposed sanctions on 29 individuals and 15 organizations it said were linked to Russia’s occupation administrations and to efforts to spread propaganda and distort history, according to the Office of the President of Ukraine on February 24.
The presidential office stated that the measures targeted Russian academics and officials in Russian-installed bodies, along with organizations it accused of falsifying historical facts and of stealing cultural property and archival documents from Crimea.
We bring you stories from the ground. Your support keeps our team in the field.
It said the list included Russian propagandist Alexander Chubaryan, described as a co-author of a Russian school history textbook that justifies Russia’s aggression, as well as historians Alexei Miller and Artem Lagoyskyi, who is heading a Russian-installed “culture ministry” in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region.
“Sanctions have been imposed against cultural colonization—against those who for decades distorted the history of Ukraine and imposed imperial narratives,” the president’s sanctions policy commissioner, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, was quoted as saying.
Ukraine has also pursued cases tied to the alleged looting of cultural heritage in Crimea, including that of Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin.
Butyagin was detained in Poland in December 2025 at Ukraine’s request over accusations of unauthorized excavations and the removal of historical artifacts from the peninsula.
Earlier, it was reported that Ukraine imposed sanctions on individuals involved in promoting pro-Kremlin historical narratives and supporting occupation authorities in temporarily occupied territories, including figures linked to the distortion of history and cultural appropriation.
-457ad7ae19a951ebdca94e9b6bf6309d.png)
-72b63a4e0c8c475ad81fe3eed3f63729.jpeg "Photo of Cyril Barabaltchouk")
