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Vladimir Medinskiy, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation
The main task that faced the ministry was the fulfilment of the decree of the president, including the most difficult position - raising the wages of workers of culture.
I can say that in 9 months we carried out serious preparatory work to raise wages, and we'd love to have this done not only due to the additional funding, which is determined by the government, but primarily due to the restructuring of the cultural institutions themselves.
This restructuring involves the redistribution of the appropriations to be allocated, outsourcing of non-core activities, finding additional, extra-budgetary funds and reasonable reorganization and optimization of the structure.
Starting from Monday, we allocate to all of our institutions additional funds for higher wages.
Now we do it consciously, in the first third of 2013, because practically most of our institutions effectively fulfilled these basic parameters for the "road map" of signing a new contract.
Already today we can say that the work has paid off, and if a year ago, at the beginning of 2012, the average salary of the employees of federal institutions of culture was less than 20,000 rubles, or more precisely, 19,800 rubles, as of April 1 year, exactly a year later, this salary has increased by almost 50% and now stands at 28,800 rubles.
We hope that this figure by the end of the year will increase even more.
The Ministry of Culture, being quite a conservative institution, has never initiated a large number of bills.
I can say that over the past four years of the government Ministry of Culture initiated and adopted only two bills.
Over the past year, the Ministry of Culture has developed 23 acts which are at a different level of adoption and discussion.
4 of them were adopted – the act on the United Automatic Information Trade System, Article 150 of the Tax Code, the archives of state corporations and the Esterhazy collection.
In the State Duma a law on archeology is pending, in the government there are three bills, complicated and quite public, for changing the contract system for actors, amendments to the Labour Code, and two bills on visa facilitation.
In addition, one of the main objectives that we set a year ago is to make our ministry open to all areas of activity.
Perhaps the prime example of such openness is the discussion of the problem of moving the collection of impressionists from the Hermitage to Moscow.
I think the destruction of the museum of new western art, as the first museum of modern art in the world, the museum created by an amazing intuition of genius and artistic flair of our great collectors Shchukin and Morozov, was a huge mistake, and I'm afraid that the correction will be an even bigger mistake.
This year we just opened the Museum of New Western Art - a virtual one, combining all the collections, at least, all that was left of them, and making them accessible to every Internet user.