The Presidential Executive Office has been instructed to draft proposals on getting public movements, organisations and groups involved in work on state cultural policy tasks and monitoring preservation of cultural heritage of Russia’s different peoples.
The Government has been instructed to take into account in its adjustments to the 2016 federal budget priority implementation of programmes and measures for reaching the goals and resolving the tasks set by state cultural policy.
The Government has also been instructed to ensure compliance with the 1972 World Heritage Convention and the decisions of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee regarding cultural heritage sites in Russia included on the UNESCO list of World Cultural Heritage sites.
Further instructions to the Government concern improvements to Russian laws on state protection of cultural heritage sites of Russia’s peoples, monitoring their situation, and liability for violations of laws on cultural heritage sites of Russia’s peoples and damage caused to these sites.
Other instructions to the Government concern, in particular, public organisations’ involvement in preparing decisions on reorganising, closing down, or re-profiling theatres, museums and other cultural facilities, studying the state of cultural heritage sites of Russia’s peoples, deciding on preservation measures, and promoting these sites.
Instructions to the Culture Ministry concern the federal cultural heritage site Academy of Arts (mid-18th to early 20th century, located in St Petersburg), and ensuring activity of the organisations located at this site in accordance with Russian laws on education, librarianship, Museum Fund and museums.
The regional executive authorities have received the recommendation to establish public councils for cultural heritage and give them powers to examine architectural, construction and restoration projects and projects to adapt cultural heritage sites of Russia’s peoples to modern use.
The Moscow city authorities have been instructed to draft a proposal on preservation and use of the Ukrainian Literature Library’s collection in accordance with the goals and objectives of Russia’s ethnic policy.