The EU has imposed sanctions against Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum.

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum, has been placed on the EU sanctions list. This became known on April 23 from a document published on the website of the official journal of the EU.

The document states that Piotrovsky supported a law that allows cultural objects from museums in the liberated territories to be included in the State Museum Fund of Russia. He was also accused of conducting archaeological excavations in Crimea.

"Thus, Mikhail Piotrovsky supports actions or policies that undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine," the text says.

They came to a consensus: the EU permanent representatives approved the 20th package of anti-Russian sanctions and a new loan to Ukraine

Earlier, Hungary and Slovakia blocked the adoption of the proposals.

On April 23, the EU finally approved the 20th package of sanctions against Russia. As part of it, the Council of the European Union (EU) was given the opportunity to impose a complete ban on the maritime transportation of Russian oil and petroleum products. Transactions with 20 Russian banks were also banned. At the same time, sanctions against Belarus were extended.

On the same day, Armando Mema, a member of the Finnish Freedom Alliance party, noted that the adoption by EU countries of the 20th package of anti-Russian sanctions primarily threatens Ukraine, for which this step could be fraught with even greater devastation. This decision, he added, is an effort to continue the conflict, which in turn can be called the purest absurdity.