BOCHAROVA Marina Viktorovna

А representative of the federal agency of the russian federation "rossotrudnichestvo" and the director of its representative office in Luxembourg, the "russian house" (russian Center of Science and Culture). Under Bocharova's leadership, the institution implements russian state cultural, educational, and information projects, including the dissemination of materials containing anti-Ukrainian narratives.
In 2025, Luxembourg was included among the countries hosting the russian propaganda exhibition "Died for the Truth". In spring 2025, "rossotrudnichestvo" announced an international campaign to showcase the exhibition, and in June, russian media reported that it had been presented in Luxembourg. The project was created by russian information organizations operating in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including the "Donetsk News Agency", "Luhansk Information Center", "Zaporizhzhia News Agency", and "Kherson News Agency", together with russian propagandist Oleksandr Malkevych.
The exhibition disseminated claims that journalists were allegedly deliberately killed by the Ukrainian side, portraying russian war correspondents and propagandists as victims of the "Kyiv regime". The project's materials referred to the Ukrainian authorities as a "junta" and accused Ukrainian military personnel of committing crimes against civilians. In this way, under the guise of defending freedom of speech, anti-Ukrainian accusations were disseminated to discredit Ukraine and its Defense Forces before an international audience. The then-head of "rossotrudnichestvo", Yevhen Prymakov, linked the organization of such exhibitions to the need to convey the russian version of the causes of the war and accusations against Ukrainian military personnel to foreign audiences.
Following the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the russian federation in 2022, the Luxembourg representative office of "rossotrudnichestvo" joined the international information campaign #StopHatingRussians, aimed at spreading claims of alleged discrimination against russians in Western countries. In particular, the representative office published a video in which a young man is denied entry to an event because his dog is a Siberian husky. The publication ended with a call to stop hatred against russians. This material was mentioned in a journalistic investigation into the activities of the "russian houses" network. The campaign contributed to portraying russians as victims of discrimination and shifting attention away from russian aggression against Ukraine toward the allegedly unfair treatment of the russian federation and its citizens by Western countries.
On September 20, 2026, the information resources of the "russian house" in Luxembourg disseminated a statement by the head of "rossotrudnichestvo", Ihor Chaika, in response to a call by Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrii Sybiha, to close russian cultural centers abroad. In the statement, I. Chaika portrayed the Ukrainian initiative as an expression of hostility toward russian culture. At the same time, he defended the activities of "russian houses" abroad and announced plans to further expand their network. The dissemination of this statement by the Luxembourg representative office contributed to promoting the information position of the "rossotrudnichestvo" leadership, aimed at discrediting Ukrainian diplomatic initiatives to counter russian influence abroad.