The Presidential Executive Office and the federal Government are to formulate proposals on preparing and holding the celebrations of the 200th birth anniversary of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
The federal Government is to ensure that budgetary allocations to the universities of culture and arts are maintained at the 2016 level in 2017.
The federal Government and the Government of Moscow are to analyse the possibility of creating a Centre of National Literatures at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
The Culture Ministry and public organisations concerned with protecting cultural heritage are to provide state protection and maintenance of the cultural landmarks of Russia’s ethnic groups, to monitor and supervise the preservation of cultural heritage and to improve the legal framework and law enforcement practice in this area.