Russia 7.1.3
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Russia 7.1.3

  • August 10, 2019

A breakdown of Russian federal funding in the cultural sector, by budget categories, is included in Table 6.

Table 6:    Public cultural expenditure: Federal Budget spending by sector, in million RUB, 2005-2010

Sector 2005 2007 2010
Culture, cinematography and mass media 39 173.1 67 804.7 107 340.2
Culture
including:
FTP “Culture of Russia“
capital investment
cultural houses
museums and exhibitions
libraries
performing arts 		6901.1 35 757.7 50 473.9

12 841.4
3 843.2
2 425.7
12 015.7
3 004.7
10 747.0
Cinematography 2686.2 3 684.4 5 562.4
Broadcasting 10918.3 20 704.3 36 725.1
Periodicals and publishing 387.2 3 345.0 4 103.2
Applied research 173.3 287.0 398.8
Other 8107.0 4 026.3 10 076.9
TOTAL Federal Budget spending 3 047 929.3 4 794 455.2 8 846 973.5
% of TOTAL 1.3 1.4 1.2

Source: Laws on the Federal Budget for 2005, 2007 and 2010, Annex 9.


The following table shows the relative weight and importance of some fields for the central, regional and local levels.

Table 7:    State cultural expenditure: budget spending in 2003 (in billion RUB)

Field / Domain / Sub-domain Direct
expenditure 		Transfers
and subventions 		Total % Total
C R L C R L C R L C R L
Cultural goods
Cultural Heritage                        
Historical Monuments                        
Museums   2.42 0.75   … …   2.98 0.87      
Archives                        
Libraries   2.39 5.62   … 0.04   2.72 5.90      
Cultural houses … 0.84 11.76 … … 0.07 … 1.00 13.66 0 7 93
Arts
Visual Arts                        
Performing arts   6.31 0.63   0.04 …   7.42 0.72      
Music                        
Theatre and music theatre                        
Circus   0.02 …   … …   0.02 …      
Other   2.88 3.94   0.58 0.10 0.01 4.87 4.34 0 53 47
Cinema   – –   0.40 0.43 2.05 0.40 0.43 72 13 15
Total 14.86 22.70 1.05 0.65 14.19 19.41 25.92 24 33 43
Media
Books and press   0.09 0.08   2.63 1.21 0.61 2.75 1.32 13 59 28
Books   – –   0.24 0.01   0.24 0.01      
Press   0.09 0.08   2.39 1.20   2.51 1.31      
Audio, Audiovisual and Multimedia   0.10 0.04   0.78 0.02 0.32 0.88 0.06 25 70 5
Radio and Television   0.79 0.39   3.09 0.56 11.60 3.97 1.02 70 24 6
Total 0.98 0.51 6.50 1.79 12.53 7.60 2.40 55 34 11
Other
Interdisciplinary                        
Socio-cultural                        
Cultural relations abroad                        
Administration*                        
Educational activities                        
Not allocable by domain                        
Total 15.84 23.21 7.55 2.44 26.72 27.01 28.32 32 33 35

Source:   
Ministry of Finance. Report on Federal budget execution on 1 January 2004: http://www.minfin.ru (from the screen in August 2004).
Notes:     
C = Central level;
R = Regional level;
L = Local level.