- Programme
- Situation in Ukraine
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), Art. 15 para. 1 and 4 (Financial sanctions) and art. 29 para. 1 (Travel ban), annexe 8
- Stated grounds
- Nikolai Makarov is the Director of the state-funded Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science “Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (IA RAS) and Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is responsible for IA RAS’s scientific, technical, and economic operations, including its development strategy and fieldwork policy. Under his leadership, IA RAS has become a central actor in Russia’s state-directed archaeological exploitation of the occupied Crimean Peninsula. Therefore, Nikolai Makarov is supporting and implementing actions and policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026