“There is nothing surprising. Everything is in the same direction. This direction is to completely isolate oneself from Russia, from the past, from general history. They build their own history and their own state with special roots, traditions and culture. As for these cultural institutions (against which sanctions were imposed. RT ), there are exhibits in them and the facts are reliable - such as they are, and not those invented by the modern government of Ukraine, ”the senator explained.
According to him, precisely for this purpose, such decisions are being made.
“They want the citizens of Ukraine to forget their past, they all start from scratch,” concluded Tsekov.
Earlier Zelensky signed a decree on sanctions against cultural and scientific institutions of Russia.
The list included, in particular, the Russian Geographical Society, the State Hermitage Museum, and the A.S. State Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin ”,“ Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences ”,“ Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov ”,“ Tula State Pedagogical University named after L.N. Tolstoy, Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.