- 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
- Igor Zhuravlev is the Director of the All-Russian Children’s Centre “Smena”, a facility linked to the Russian Ministry of Education. In his capacity as Director, Igor Zhuravlev manages the “Smena” centre, which hosts Ukrainian minors transferred from occupied territories. The “Smena” centre is part of a state-coordinated network implementing programmes that assimilate Ukrainian children and expose them to ideological indoctrination, and militarised education in line with Russian state policies. By directing and overseeing the activities of the All-Russian Children’s Centre “Smena”, Igor Zhuravlev is supporting and implementing actions and policies involving the deportation or forced transfer, forced assimilation, including indoctrination, indoctrination, or militarised education of Ukrainian minors from occupied territories of Ukraine.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026