{"raw_record_id":"209bb7bc-71b0-4f6a-9500-6e585051e11c","external_id":"member:OJ:L_202601356:75","record_hash":"05e0d5a5c108b1aae33d84149fea04493936c3a8ff433af22abea1d7fc3f49e3","raw_record":{"gender":"male","source":"EUR-Lex","aliases":["Игор Валентинович МАЛЬЦЕВ"],"reasons":["Igor Maltsev is a Russian journalist, writer and media commentator who uses major pro-Kremlin outlets (including RT, Life and Kommersant) to disseminate propaganda, disinformation and narratives aimed at undermining Ukraine’s statehood and sovereignty, discrediting Ukraine’s political and military leadership and weakening Western support for Ukraine.","Igor Maltsev openly supports Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and justifies the occupation of Ukrainian territory. In his media outputs and Telegram channel, Igor Maltsev glorifies Russian military personnel, illegal armed groups, mercenaries and occupation administrators and expresses admiration for Vladimir Putin. Igor Maltsev has also promoted a Russian Ministry of Defence video game, entitled Squad 22: ZOV, that celebrates participants of the invasion, while discrediting Ukrainian defenders.","Igor Maltsev regularly labels Ukrainian soldiers as “Nazi fanatics”, and falsely accuses them of causing the war and of prisoner abuse. He also spreads disinformation about “chaos,” “rampant crime” and “mass looting” in Kyiv and advances fake narratives portraying Ukraine as a global hub of illegal arms trafficking.","By consistently disseminating such narratives, Igor Maltsev is supporting, implementing and facilitating actions and policies attributable to the Government of Russian Federation, which undermine and threaten stability and security in the Union, its Member States and in a third country (Ukraine) through engaging in the use of information manipulation and interference, and supporting a violent conflict in a third country (Ukraine)."],"legal_act":{"oj_id":"202601356","title":"Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1356 implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia's destabilising activities","act_number":"2026/1356","regime_name":"Russia destabilising activities","program_code":"EU-2024-2642","expected_rows":11},"birth_date":"1958-10-26","name_lines":["Igor Valentinovich MALTSEV","(Russian: Игор Валентинович МАЛЬЦЕВ)"],"row_number":"75","birth_place":"Leningrad, former Russian SFSR (now Russian Federation)","birth_date_text":"26.10.1958","date_designated":"2026-06-15","identifying_information":["Function: columnist for “RT in Russian”, “Life” and “Kommersant”, Russian writer, publicist, TV presenter and journalist","DOB: 26.10.1958","POB: Leningrad, former Russian SFSR (now Russian Federation)","Nationality: Russian","Gender: male"]},"snapshot_id":"374a9daf-3e89-46c8-8e40-be7db16914e1","snapshot_sha256":"84b85e7bd8b81915398bbadd7b3ffeb3d993dddecf4e2d4b5365257410108d65","fetched_at":"2026-07-09T20:16:58.350741+00:00","source_name":"EUR-Lex","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/","document_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202601356"}