{"raw_record_id":"6a37f637-4a18-4a04-9423-a64e40522b5f","external_id":"member:OJ:L_202601356:71","record_hash":"ba963b5deb20699891e5c90487df40a09c8d6b0f396bdba761223fbb4bc00605","raw_record":{"gender":"female","source":"EUR-Lex","aliases":["Александра ЙОСТ","A.k.a.: Sasha JOST","Саша ЙОСТ"],"reasons":["Alexandra Jost is a social media influencer living in Russia. She has been actively operating several social media accounts (X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Telegram from Russia under the name “Sasha meets Russia” or “Sasha and Russia”, with a significant reach among Western audiences.","She has built an extensive base of followers under the guise of cultural coverage, while focusing on pro-war and pro-Kremlin propaganda with regard to Ukraine, and supporting the Kremlin’s political establishment and the Russian armed forces. In particular, she has been disseminating disinformation and supporting Russia’s neo-colonial territorial claims about Ukraine and the military invasion of Ukraine, for example, when addressing Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she claimed that Crimea is Russia and soon all of Ukraine will be too.","She has also produced content while being paid by TV-Novosti, the legal entity behind Russian state media outlet Russia Today (“RT”), which is subject to Union restrictive measures. An independent investigation shows that Alexandra Jost received funding from Russian state media outlet RT averaging 170 000 Russian Rubles (USD 2 000 ) per month during the first three quarters of 2024. Alexandra Jost and her husband also received grants provided by the Kremlin’s Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives funnelled through the Public Relations agency “Limitless”. She also participated in at least three coordinated events in 2025, including with Maria Butina, who is an individual subject to Union restrictive measures.","Therefore, Alexandra Jost is implementing, supporting and facilitating actions and policies attributable to the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability or security in the Union or in a third country (Ukraine) by engaging in, supporting or otherwise facilitating the use of information manipulation and interference."],"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":"1998-05-15","name_lines":["Alexandra JOST","(Russian: Александра ЙОСТ)","A.k.a.: Sasha JOST","(Russian: Саша ЙОСТ)"],"row_number":"71","birth_place":"Hong Kong, China","birth_date_text":"15.5.1998","date_designated":"2026-06-15","identifying_information":["Function: Blogger, social media influencer","DOB: 15.5.1998","POB: Hong Kong, China","Nationality: Russian","Gender: female"]},"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"}