In Ukraine, they announced their desire to block Russian music on streaming services.

The Ukrainian authorities plan to completely block Russian music on international streaming platforms. Vladislav Vlasyuk, the country's commissioner for sanctions policy, announced this on January 10.

"We want [musicians from Russia] not to be on the charts on streaming platforms," Strana quoted him as saying.ua" in the Telegram channel.

According to Vlasyuk, Kiev will demand that access to Russian music content be completely blocked on the territory of Ukraine. He pointed out that there are already more than 100 artists from the Russian Federation on the list of banned.

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on September 26, 2025, that the regime of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky considers the Russian cultural sphere to be a separate "battlefield" and is trying to eradicate all Russian not only inside the country, but also outside it. The diplomat pointed out that the Ukrainian side accuses Russia of allegedly destroying more than 2,000 cultural institutions on its territory, while Ukrainian officials continue to impose sanctions against Russian performers.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on May 23 that Western countries and Ukraine have been falsifying the history of the Russian Federation for many years and demolishing architectural monuments associated with Russia. The Russian Foreign Minister also clarified that while such monuments are being dismantled, monuments to collaborators, on the contrary, are being installed.

On July 18, Alexander Sholokhov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, expressed the opinion that the seizure and destruction of Russian books from libraries in Ukraine impoverishes the country and resembles the burning of books in Germany in the last century. The parliamentarian stressed that this gives Ukraine nothing but impoverishment in every sense.

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