# West systematically targets Russian intelligentsia — MFA

https://mins.news/en/item/34418

- TASS, 2026-08-27 13:22 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2178449

> Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Western countries are systematically targeting Russian academics, citing the detention of archaeologist Alexander Butyagin in Poland at Ukraine’s request. She also said Kyiv’s “neo-Nazi ideology” is appearing in academia and that Ukrainian authorities are trying to unlawfully appropriate Russian archaeologists’ Crimean research.