Resolution No. 2606-r of December 28, 2012
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The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Culture in accordance with List of Presidential Directives No. Pr-3411 dated December 22, 2012 (paragraph 1, subparagraph “a”) issued following a meeting on regional budgets held on December 4, 2012.
The resolution includes a decision to approve the action plan (roadmap) entitled Changes in the Social Sphere Designed to Promote Culture.
The roadmap outlines measures to improve the quality of life in Russia, ensure decent pay in the sphere of culture, retain and promote the staff of cultural institutions, enhance the prestige and attractiveness of work in the cultural sphere, provide public access to cultural values and cultural life, and facilitate sustainable development of the sphere of culture.
In order to achieve these goals, the roadmap provides for conducting structural reforms in the cultural sphere, increasing wages of the cultural institutions’ employees, and improving the quality of services in the cultural sphere as it transitions to effective contract arrangements.
For the purpose of monitoring the implementation of the above measures, the roadmap outlines progress benchmarks (indicators) and actions needed in order to achieve them.
The resolution instructs the Ministry of Culture to submit a roadmap progress report to the Ministry of Labour every six months. Likewise, it instructs the Ministry of Finance and the federal executive authorities in charge of the action plan's implementation to be mindful of the roadmap as they draft federal budgets for the next fiscal year and planning period, and encourages the regional and local executive authorities to ensure the implementation of the roadmap.
The resolution will be instrumental in retaining the staff working in the sphere of culture, enhance the prestige and attractiveness of work in this sphere and introduce remuneration systems based on the quality of the public (municipal) services in public (municipal) cultural institutions.