MOSCOW, April 7 Speakers of the Federation Council and the State Duma Valentina Matviyenko and Vyacheslav Volodin introduce to the lower house parliamentary bill on the intangible ethnocultural heritage of the Russian Federation, the press service of the Federation Council reports. Among the authors of the document are Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev and Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Science, Education and Culture Lilia Gumerova.
Yesterday, 20:16CultureThe Foreign Ministry called the detention of cultural property in Finland lawlessnessAs noted in the explanatory note to the draft law, «the intangible ethnocultural heritage of the Russian Federation is part of the common heritage of mankind in various fields of activity, a powerful means of rapprochement between the peoples of Russia, ethnic communities, and the assertion of their cultural identity» .It plays a key role in shaping the cultural space of modern Russia, on whose territory representatives of more than 190 nationalities and ethnic groups live, each of which is the bearer of unique original cultural traditions, the report says. The bill regulates relations in the field of identifying, studying, using, updating , preservation and popularization of the intangible ethno-cultural heritage of the Russian Federation in order to exercise the rights of ethnic communities to preserve their cultural and national identity, the implementation of the constitutional right of every citizen to access cultural values and the constitutional obligation of everyone to take care of the preservation of cultural heritage.April 4, 14:08CulturePaintings of the Morozovs in Paris are being prepared for shipment to RussiaThe document introduces a conceptual apparatus in the field of the intangible ethnocultural heritage of the Russian Federation, establishes the rights and powers of federal and regional government bodies, as well as local governments, the basic principles for creating and maintaining a state information system » The Federal State Register of Objects of the Intangible Ethnocultural Heritage of the Russian Federation.» According to Gumerova, the decision to develop the bill was made following the results of the Parliamentary Forum «Historical and Cultural Heritage of Russia», held in Yaroslavl in September 2021. «A working group was created at the site of the upper house with the participation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, representatives of the expert and scientific community in preparing the text of the bill,» the senator said. She noted that the document was submitted to the State Duma directly on the Year of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia, which was announced in accordance 
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