Roskultura eliminated with the transfer functions of the Ministry of Culture
ARTinvestment.RU   13 мая 2008

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the abolition of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (Roskultura), transferring its functions to the Ministry of Culture, the press service of the Kremlin

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the abolition of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (Roskultura), transferring its functions to the Ministry of Culture, the press service of the Kremlin.

According to the decree of the President, the Federal Service for Supervision in Mass Communications, Communications and the protection of cultural heritage is transformed into the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications and Mass Communications and the Federal Service for Supervision of compliance with legislation for the protection of cultural heritage.

Federal Service for Supervision in the sphere of communication and mass communication transmitted to the monitoring and supervision of the media (including electronic) and mass communications, information technology and communications, including the option to register the media.

Federal Service for Supervision of observance of legislation in protecting the cultural heritage handed responsibility for the protection of cultural heritage, copyright and related rights.

It should be recalled that on May 12, turned the head of the Ministry of Culture. They became Alexander Avdeyev, former Ambassador of Russia in France.

On the diplomatic service, Alexander Avdeyev was immediately after the MGIMO. The first zagrankomandirovku completed in Algeria. In years 1977-1985 worked at the USSR Embassy in France, the second and then first secretary; of 1992-1996 headed the Russian diplomatic mission in Bulgaria. And in the years 1998-2002 as the first Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs to deal with the Kosovo crisis by the OSCE.

The Embassy of Russia in France Avdeyev led in 2002 «Avdeyev was present in all cultural activities in the French capital - said the Parisian photographer Alexander Kremer. - He has done more for culture than for something different». Other notable direction Avdeeva in France - the Russian emigration: it is in May 2005, handed 85-year-old daughter of General Деникина Mary Деникиной-Gray Russian passport. «The fact that the leadership culture came a man with diplomatic experience, I think, even better than if there came a man shop, with its predilections and beliefs», - the director of Moscow House of Photography Olga Sviblova.

Source: www.rian.ru , www.vedomosti.ru