Stealers of heritage

As the head of the Federal Archival Agency (Rosarkhiv), he takes measures aimed at legitimising russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories and subordinating Ukrainian archives from the TOT of Ukraine to the russian archival infrastructure.
In 2023, the Rosarkhiv, headed by Artizov, published a collection of documents that ‘confirm’ Putin's article ‘On the Historical Unity of russians and Ukrainians’. The collection contains propaganda materials that contribute to the falsification of history and the promotion of russian narratives.
Artizov is a member of the presidium of the russian Historical Society, which in 2022 published a statement of support for the so-called ‘SVO’.
In 2014, Artizov visited the Sevastopol city archive, where he discussed the ‘action plan for the integration of the Sevastopol archive into the archival industry of the russian federation’.

As the head of the so-called ‘State Committee for Archives of the Republic of Crimea’, he takes measures aimed at legitimising the occupation of Ukrainian territories by the russian federation and subordinating Ukrainian archives from the temporarily occupied Crimea to the russian archival infrastructure.
In February 2025, Lobov took part in a radio broadcast of the occupation authorities' propaganda broadcaster Radio Crimea, where he spoke about events dedicated to the "80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War". During the broadcast, he stated that the archives of Crimea ‘preserve memories, photographs and documents related to the Crimean Spring, which will eventually become important historical sources’, which is an attempt to distort history and spread false information.
In January 2025, Lobov took part in an event dedicated to the ‘Year of the Defender of the Fatherland’ in accordance with the presidential decree of 16.01.2025 No. 28. The event was held at the Mykola Sava Azov Gymnasium. During his speech, Lobov noted that he was cooperating with the so-called ‘Fatherland Defence Fund’ in ‘the direction of forming funds of personal origin of the participants of the AFO’.
In December 2024, he took part in a meeting of the public coordination council, where among the issues discussed was ‘the preparation of Russian citizens for military service’ and that it ‘remains a priority of state policy’ and ‘special attention was paid to the issues of military-patriotic education of young people’.
Under the leadership of Lobov, propaganda exhibitions ‘Crimea in the History of russia’ are regularly held in the territory of the temporarily occupied of the AR of Crimea. As stated on the website of the occupation authorities of Yevpatoria, the exhibition ‘tells about the common history of Crimea and russia, starting from the period of the Crimean Khanate and ending with the events of March 2014’.
Also, the official page of the so-called ‘State Committee for Archives of the Republic of Crimea’, headed by Lobov, on the Russian social network ‘Odnoklassniki’, regularly publishes posts about contract service in the ‘russian army’.
Since 2014, he has been a member of the so-called ‘Public Coordination Council for Patriotic Education under the Head of the Republic of Crimea’, which is engaged in the imposition of Russian propaganda on the territory of the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

As the so-called director of the ‘Sevastopol City Archive’, he takes measures aimed at legitimising the occupation of Ukrainian territories by the russian federation and subordinating Ukrainian archives from the temporarily occupied Crimea to the russian archival infrastructure.
The organisation headed by Krasnonos is engaged in the ‘formation of funds on the special military operation and the preconditions of the events in Donbas’, which are attempts to distort history and disseminate false information.

He has publicly called for the signing of an ‘agreement’ with the illegally established body of the occupation administration of the russian federation in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in particular, an agreement ‘on cooperation in the field of archival affairs between the Federal Archival Agency (Rosarkhiv) and the so-called "State Archives" in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the purpose of which is to fully cooperate with the said illegal body and to prevent the misappropriation of archival documents.
Since mid-2024, he has been regularly calling on the occupation authorities of the temporarily occupied Crimea to provide him with access to the illegally exported documents from the State Archives of the Kherson region, as Semenov notes that ‘they are invaluable for Novorossiya’.
He regularly visits the TOT of Ukraine to deliver humanitarian aid to the russian army.

He participated in the illegal transfer of state archives of the Kherson region to the temporarily occupied Crimea, for which in 2023 he received the Medal ‘For Merit to the Kherson Region’ of the III degree from the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied Kherson region.

He participated in the illegal transfer of state archives of the Kherson region to the temporarily occupied Crimea, for which in 2023 he received the Medal ‘For Merit to the Kherson Region’ of the III degree from the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied Kherson region.

He participated in the illegal transfer of state archives of the Kherson region to the temporarily occupied Crimea, for which in 2023 he received the Medal ‘For Merit to the Kherson Region’ of the III degree from the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied Kherson region.

He participated in the illegal transfer of state archives of the Kherson region to the temporarily occupied Crimea, for which in 2023 he received the Medal ‘For Merit to the Kherson Region’ of the III degree from the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied Kherson region.