War, art, and sanctions: social network analysis on the NACP’s databases of sanctioned Russian individuals and art collectors
Journal: International Journal of Digital Humanities
Year: 2024

Abstract Until March 2024, Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) was tasked with maintaining databases of individuals sanctioned for their support of Russian military action in Ukraine and monitoring works of art owned by these individuals to prevent their being sold in violation of sanctions. The present study gathered data from the NACP’s War &amp; Sanctions and War &amp; Art databases through a combination of web scraping and API requests. These data were then examined usi