--- title: Aleksandr Gutsan url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/aleksandr-gutsan/ description: 3 verified quotes from Aleksandr Gutsan, Prosecutor General, with sources. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a redacted Cold War intelligence-dossier collage centred on a world map of influence operations, with the U.S. Capitol among the evidence.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-home.jpg) [Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · Russia # Aleksandr Gutsan ![Aleksandr Gutsan, September 2025](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/putin-government/aleksandr-gutsan.jpg) [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutsan.jpg): Federation Council press service (council.gov.ru), CC BY 4.0 Prosecutor General · Russia On the regime page: [Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/putin-government/#aleksandr-gutsan) 3 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=aleksandr-gutsan). 1. > “The crime rate last year was registered at a record low in the history of modern Russia - just over 1,200 crimes per 100,000 people. In total, 1,771,000 crimes were registered” — English: English as published by TASS (English service), 15 April 2026. Original-language text not found. — April 15, 2026 · Speech · Moscow, Federation Council (annual report) Verified (secondary source) — Gutsan's first annual report to the Federation Council as Prosecutor General, a post he took up in September 2025. Other reports of the same speech (Parlamentskaya Gazeta) quote him on rising extremist and terrorist offences. — Annual report of Prosecutor General Aleksandr Gutsan to the Federation Council on the state of law and order, 15 April 2026, as quoted by TASS [Source](https://tass.com/society/2117499) 2. > “Promoting such ideas among young people, which undoubtedly undermine moral foundations, often takes place under the guise of pseudo-humanitarian projects funded from abroad” — Original (Russian) — Продвижение в молодежной среде подобных идей, безусловно, подрывающих нравственные устои, во многих случаях происходит под прикрытием финансируемых из-за рубежа псевдогуманитарных проектов — English: English as published by TASS (English service), 1 October 2026; Russian as published by News.ru from the Prosecutor General's Office press service — October 1, 2026 · Speech · Kazan, 24th meeting of prosecutors general of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states Verified (secondary source) — Gutsan said that 90% of foreign and international organisations designated 'undesirable' in Russia had a detrimental effect on young people through education and outreach. Russian law allows the Prosecutor General's Office to designate foreign organisations 'undesirable'; the designation criminalises participation in their activity. Rights groups and several foreign governments criticise the law. — Report by Prosecutor General Aleksandr Gutsan at the 24th SCO prosecutors general meeting, Kazan, 1 October 2026, as quoted by TASS and News.ru [Source](https://tass.com/society/2195629) 3. > “deliberately instilled cultural and moral nihilism among teenagers and systematically created conditions for their radicalization” — English: English as published by TASS (English service), 1 October 2026. Original-language text not found. — October 1, 2026 · Speech · Kazan, 24th meeting of prosecutors general of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states Verified (secondary source) — Gutsan gave Bard College, a US institution, as an example of an organisation designated 'undesirable' in Russia; TASS adds that he said its projects in Russia had been discontinued following the decision. — Report by Prosecutor General Aleksandr Gutsan at the 24th SCO prosecutors general meeting, Kazan, 1 October 2026, as quoted by TASS [Source](https://tass.com/society/2195629)