An Open-Source Monitoring & Advocacy Project

Rossotrudnichestvo runs 94 “Russian Houses” worldwide. This project tracks every one — to help shut them down.

Every Russian House is run by Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian state agency placed under EU sanctions in July 2022 for using cultural programming and “soft power” to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation abroad. Despite that, dozens of its offices continue operating inside the EU and NATO states that sanctioned them. This site tracks every known office worldwide — its legal status, its social media reach, and the web infrastructure keeping it online — so journalists, platforms, and regulators have what they need to close the house, cut its social reach, and revoke the certificates that keep it looking legitimate.

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94Houses tracked worldwide

243Social accounts catalogued

12Reportable CA certificates

The Campaign

Three ways to close a Russian House

Documenting a location is the first step. Closing it for good means attacking the three things that keep it running: its legal standing to operate, its reach on social platforms, and the web infrastructure that makes it look like a legitimate institution.

Close the houses

Nine offices have already closed since 2022 — Finland, Denmark, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovenia, the UK, Portugal, and Germany — usually after a government order or a lost legal fight. This register documents every remaining office's address, legal status, and sourcing, so the case for closing the rest is a matter of public record, not guesswork.

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Cut their social reach

We've catalogued 243 Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, VK, and Telegram accounts across these houses — the actual distribution network for their content. Reporting the network as a whole, rather than one page at a time, is what makes a platform-level takedown possible.

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Expose the infrastructure

12 of these sites still get their TLS certificate from a Western or EU-based Certificate Authority — HARICA (Greece) or Let's Encrypt (US) — both nominally bound by sanctions compliance. That's a reportable target: naming the CA still vouching for a sanctioned state agency's website.

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The Legal Framework in Europe

71 MEPs have called for an EU-wide closure mechanism

On October 6, 2026, 71 Members of the European Parliament — led by Lithuanian MEP Rasa Juknevičienė — sent a formal letter to European Council President António Costa, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and High Representative Kaja Kallas. It calls for a coordinated EU-wide approach to Russian Houses, citing Rossotrudnichestvo's EU sanctions designation since July 2022 and an Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service finding that these centres are “regularly used by the FSB and SVR as cover for their officers.” The letter asks the Commission and EEAS to map the legal and financial arrangements behind every Russian House in the Union — and to assess whether their continued operation is compatible with EU restrictive measures at all.

71MEPs signed

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Voices

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Russia is waging a global battle for the minds of people through a comprehensive network of tools and channels, including Rossotrudnichestvo and so-called Russkiy Dom (“Russian House”) cultural centers. They in fact serve as tools for disinformation, destabilisation, and espionage. … Despite a wave of closures, some of these disinformation centers continue to operate in at least seven European countries.

Andrii Sybiha @andrii_sybiha

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Sep 19, 2026 · View on X →

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Every “Russian House” is not a cultural center, but rather an element of Russia’s state infrastructure of influence. In fact, it is an FSB branch operating under the guise of culture, language, and “friendship among peoples.” … They must be shut down. All of them. Without exception.

Denys Shtilierman @DenShtilierman

Co-owner & Chief Designer, Fire Point

Sep 19, 2026 · View on X →

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“The work of our foreign centers — Russian Houses abroad — will be effective and on the offensive — in a good sense, of course.” — Igor Chaika, head of Russia’s agency for international humanitarian and cultural cooperation.

Natalka @NatalkaKyiv

NAFO

Sep 30, 2026 · View on X →

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Moldova has closed the “Russian House” propaganda center in Chișinău. … It is the official representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo — a Russian state agency that the Kremlin has used for decades as a “soft power” tool … activities of such centers have repeatedly drawn the attention of intelligence agencies due to suspicions that they serve as a cover for espionage.

Jürgen Nauditt @jurgen_nauditt

Jul 4, 2026 · View on X →

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Russian propaganda is calling me a traitor again because I’m calling for the closure of so-called “Russian Houses” in Europe — and for their buildings to be repurposed as military recruitment offices for Russians who want to fight for Ukraine, for example.

Pussy Riot @pussyrrriot

Anti-authoritarian art movement

Oct 3, 2026 · View on X →

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“Espionage hubs”: MEPs call for the closure of all “Russian Houses” in the EU. Seventy-one Members of the European Parliament have called for a unified stance … and for their operations to be halted. “These are Russian espionage hubs in Europe that act against the EU and coordinate operations involving information manipulation and external interference,” said MEP Rasa Juknevičienė, the letter's initiator, as quoted by LRT. (via DW)

Jürgen Nauditt @jurgen_nauditt

Oct 8, 2026 · View on X →

The Register

Every Rossotrudnichestvo office in Europe

Sourced from Rossotrudnichestvo's own rs.gov.ru map export, plus manual verification against official sites, social media, and news reporting on documented closures.

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