Maria Vladimirovna ZAKHAROVA

PersonBorn 24 Dec 1975Last read from source 26 Oct 2026

Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Affairs of the Russian Federation

Sanctioned · UK OFSI
Listed by 1 authorityRU
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Identifiers
Documents
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Sources
2 names on file
Listed in their own right1

Named directly by UK OFSI.

Director of a company that is listed—

No company role is recorded for this person by any register read.

Sanctions1 active

  • UK OFSIActive

    Russia

    Designation date not published by this authority · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

Companies & roles

No company role is recorded for this person. Roles come from national business registers, and a sanctioned individual will usually have none here — the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists.

On the record

Name
Maria Vladimirovna ZAKHAROVA
Also known as
ЗАХАРОВА Мария Владимировна
Date of birth
24 Dec 1975
Place of birth
Moscow, Russia
Nationality
RU
Position
Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Affairs of the Russian Federation
First recorded here
7 Aug 2026

From Wikidatacommunity-edited

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson since 2015

Q20812953 on Wikidata ↗

Positions held

  • extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador for the Soviet Union and Russia2017–present
  • Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation2015–present

Family

Matched to this person by a reviewer on birth date and name. Wikidata is edited by its community, not by the authorities that list this person; nothing here changes the record above.

Exposure

Medium risk2 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments60

Sanctioned by 1 authority: UK OFSI. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.

Jurisdiction70

Russia is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section IV: “High-risk third countries which are not identified as being subject to calls for action or increased monitoring by the FATF, but whose membership in that international standard-setter is suspended”. The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.

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Company associations

Not scored. No company role is recorded for this person, which is an absence of records rather than a finding.

Evidence coverage

Not scored. The evidence ledger records which sources were read for a COMPANY; it holds no per-person rows, so there is no coverage figure to price in here. The sources behind this record are listed under Evidence.

Adverse media

Not scored. Media coverage is not linked to individuals in this system at all, only to companies, and even there it covers a small fraction of the records.

Band drawn from the components that could be measured, methodology v5. The unscored ones above are gaps in what was read, not findings of nothing. Not a compliance determination — check the underlying listings before acting on anything here.

Recent activity

  1. 26 Oct 2026Last read from source