Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office on 8 July declared Yale University an “undesirable organisation,” effectively banning the Ivy League institution from operating in the country. The office accused the Connecticut-based university of working to undermine Russia’s territorial integrity, support an international blockade, and destabilise the nation’s economic and political order. Prosecutors singled out Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, alleging it provides scholarships that train foreign and Russian opposition activists, including alumni linked to the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. The statement also claimed the university helped craft legal arguments for confiscating frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s armed forces. Under Russia’s 2015 law on “undesirable organisations,” anyone found collaborating with blacklisted entities faces administrative fines and, for repeat offences, up to four years in prison, while organisation leaders risk as much as six years. Yale is the first major U.S. university to be added to the register, which already contains more than 200 NGOs, media outlets and cultural bodies targeted amid the Kremlin’s broader crackdown on perceived foreign influence since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.