Cultural Looting: Ukraine Imposes Sanctions Against the Leadership of Russian Museums
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This was stated on Espreso by the advocacy manager of the public organization PR Army Christina Shkudor.” They have gone further, they are now stealing entire museums. That year, by law of the Russian Federation, they issued a law obliging to include all, without exception, Ukrainian museums in the open register of Russian museums. That is, they do not steal individual exhibits, they steal entire museums. If in the summer of last year there were…
Ukraine has applied personal sanctions to 15 Russian citizens, heads of leading Russian museum institutions, who are actively involved in the introduction of anti-Ukrainen policies in the museum sphere, and the Government's website states that the initiative was prepared by the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine in cooperation with the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the pu…
The measures now affect the directors of the Ethnographic Museum, the Polytechnic, the Museum of the Battle of Borodino and the Andrei Rubliov Museum, among others, so that assets on Ukrainian soil are blocked for the moment.
On August 3, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the implementation of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on personal sanctions against 15 Russian citizens - heads of leading museum institutions of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications. The sanctions were imposed for active participation in the implementation of anti-Ukrainian policy in the …
The sanctions included 15 heads of Russian museums, who are responsible for appropriating Ukrainian museum values to the TOT.
Zelensky imposes sanctions against TOT asset thieves and 15 heads of Russian museumsPresident Zelensky has imposed sanctions against 62 individuals and organizations involved in the theft of grain and minerals from the occupied territories.
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