Committee for Culture of the State Duma of the Russian Federation The head of the State Duma Committee on Culture S. S. Govorukhin: “The profile committee of the State Duma will focus on finalizing the draft law“ On Culture ”. Dialogue between Bortko and Poklonskaya

On October 7, 2016, the first in the seventh convocation meeting of the Committee on Culture was held under the chairmanship of Stanislav Sergeevich Govorukhin ... He introduced the members of the Committee and offered to discuss urgent problems of legislative support of the cultural sphere in the form of a free and frank conversation.

The members of the Committee also discussed the list of bills scheduled for consideration by the State Duma during the autumn session of 2016, and the main directions of the work of the Committee on Culture of the new convocation. The deputies of the Committee decided to recommend the State Duma to hear the annual State report on the state of culture in the Russian Federation during the autumn session.

The first meeting of the Committee was attended by the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Vladimirovich Zhuravsky .

In a commentary to TASS, the head of the State Duma Committee on Culture S.S.Govorukhin said that d the elaboration and adoption of a new draft law "On Culture" should become priorities for the work of the profile committee of the State Duma of the VII convocation. “First of all, it is necessary to finalize and adopt a new law“ On Culture ”. New law should become a comprehensive full-fledged legislative act, in which not only basic concepts and provisions will be spelled out, but also the results of the development of legislation in the field of culture in general will be enshrined, ”he said.

According to him, the current law was created in the early 90s and is outdated.

The head of the committee also noted that the draft law "On the import and export of cultural property"which has been in force since 1993 and does not correspond to today's realities, primarily in connection with the development of cooperation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union:" New modern norms are required that comply with international law and make it easier for conscientious citizens to overcome "draconian measures" on the import and export of cultural property ".

After the death of Stanislav Govorukhin, he will head the Duma Committee on Culture. A source familiar with the situation told Gazeta.Ru about this.

At the end of June, the media wrote that they would not rush to the official announcement of the new head of the committee on culture in the lower house of the Russian parliament. In any case, this will not happen until 40 days have passed after the death of Govorukhin.

In addition to Yampolskaya, the first deputy of Govorukhin and another of his deputy in the committee, the grandson of the writer, were named as candidates for the post of chairman of the committee on culture.

Currently, United Russia member Yampolskaya is the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Nationalities Affairs, and also heads the Kultura newspaper. In addition, she is a member of the Presidium of the Council for Culture under the President of the Russian Federation, the Patriarchal Council for Culture, and the Society of Russian Literature. She is also a laureate of the Pushkin Gold Medal, a commemorative medal named after, the Chaika and Iskra awards.

Yampolskaya is considered a figure ideologically close to.

On the air of the Agora program on the Kultura TV channel, she formulated her position on what is happening now in the Russian cultural sphere as follows: “What we have catastrophically lost over the past 20-25 years is in the taste, of course. Moreover, a lot of the product is designed specifically for bad taste, educates it. "

“We need to educate long-term people. There is a concept of long and short money. When there is a lot of short money in the economy, it is an indicator of a crisis. The crisis is when there are many "short" people, imprisoned for a year or two - now to snatch, run away. We need to think further, ”Yampolskaya believes.

In her opinion, Russian society now waiting for the culture to turn to face him.

“These are books and films that can be digitized; you cannot translate a person into a figure. His soul hurts, and he expects culture to respond to this pain. Our problem is that now there are practically no artists who are able to feel someone else's pain as their own. There are those who comb pain points so that they look like ulcers. There are those who blunt them with the most primitive means, ”she noted.

As for the most popular of all types of arts - cinematography, then, according to Yampolskaya, it is not financial indicators that are important in this area. “It's not about the number of films and box offices. It doesn't matter how many people came to the film. It is important how they left the audience. They got better in those two hours or got worse - that's what really matters, ”she said.

Yampolskaya has repeatedly become the object of criticism from the liberals.

For example, in a 2013 publication dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin, Chief Editor Kultury stated that he was "sent to keep Russia on the world stage."

In addition, Yampolskaya noted that, in her opinion, "the depreciation of life in Stalin's times, alas, is no longer a strong argument, because we did not know such inflation of existence and non-existence as in the post-Soviet period."

In the same 2013, Yampolskaya spoke about the need to change the "cultural elite of the country."

“We have to announce a new cultural appeal. I realized this when some of the cultural figures supported Pussy Riot, she stressed. “We need to invite people from the regions and orient them correctly, and then make them new stars.”

MOSCOW, September 14. / TASS /. The State Duma Committee on Culture will prepare a statement on the situation around the film directed by Alexei Uchitel "Matilda". The first deputy chairman of the committee Elena Drapeko ("Fair Russia") told reporters about this on Thursday.

“We will prepare the text of a statement on behalf of the Committee on Culture on the situation around the film Matilda,” she said. “The voice of threats is coming from the State Duma, and this is very dangerous. We all condemn our colleague Poklonskaya, "the deputy continued.

Answering the question of journalists whether the statement will be prepared after watching the picture, Drapeko replied that the quality of the film has nothing to do with the statement. "Why after watching? This has nothing to do with the quality of the film. Since the film has received a distribution certificate, it means that it has the right to be in the distribution by law," Drapeko emphasized.

She said that in the next three days, the committee will watch "Matilda", as soon as they agree with the producers of the film and "receive a USB stick." "They [the producers] are not afraid of us, they are afraid that copies will be made, there will be piracy," the deputy clarified.

Official committee position

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, director Stanislav Govorukhin believes that around the new film "all the dark forces have revived."

"My personal opinion: it seems to me that all the dark forces have revived: all whoopers, madmen, vandals, anti-Semites, obscurantists. The cars of innocent citizens are set on fire, the truck has broken through the wall of the cinema," he said on Thursday at a meeting of the Committee on Culture , inviting its other members to express their position on the current situation.

The first deputy chairman of the committee, director Vladimir Bortko stressed that there can be only one official position of the committee regarding the release of "Matilda" - supported by the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Code. "There can be one position - a formal one, which is provided by two documents: the first is the Constitution of the Russian Federation, where it is written that we have no censorship. And if there is no censorship, this film can be viewed as you like. Another [document] is the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and not a single article refers to Matilda's film, so we simply have no formal reasons not to show it, "he said, noting that the radical actions that are being taken against the screening of the film should be investigated by law enforcement agencies.

“We do not have a single law that would prohibit the screening of the film Matilda. This is nothing more than the raging of people who are based on something incomprehensible,” concluded the first deputy chairman of the committee for culture.

Dialogue between Bortko and Poklonskaya

During a meeting of the committee of the lower house on culture, Bortko said that he had spoken with Poklonskaya about the reasons for her actions in relation to Matilda.

“I went up to Mrs. Poklonskaya, asked her to go into the lobby and said:“ Why are you doing this? ”Bortko said.“ What are you with them? ”The first deputy chairman of the committee told Poklonskaya's answer.

According to Bortko, he expressed to Poklonskaya the opinion that her actions worsen the image of the State Duma, to which the deputy replied that she would act as she considered correct.

History of the issue

The scandal around the film "Matilda" arose in connection with the previously flared up dispute between the director of the film, Alexei Uchitel, and State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya. The parliamentarian believes that the film offends the memory of Tsar Nicholas II and the feelings of believers. The director calls Poklonskaya's attempts to influence the creative process and the distribution fate of the film inadmissible.

On Tuesday, the networks "Formula Kino" and "Cinema Park" decided not to show "Matilda" because of the threat to the safety of viewers. The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky called on Wednesday any attempts to put pressure on cinemas in connection with the showing of this film as censorship and lawlessness.

He noted that the Ministry of Culture issues distribution certificates to films strictly according to the legal procedure, and the law clearly describes the grounds for refusal, but in the case of "Matilda" there are none. Medinsky stressed that a federal rental certificate is an exhaustive document that allows rental throughout the entire territory of the Russian Federation. The film "Matilda", according to him, was assigned the category "16+", and this is the only limitation provided by the law on the conditions of its film distribution.

At the same time, on Wednesday, the State Duma refused to give an official instruction to speed up the special screening of Matilda, scheduled for October 26, to deputies in the framework of the parliamentary club of the lower house. The corresponding initiative was put forward by the first deputy chairman of the Committee on Culture Elena Drapeko, arguing her proposal by the "public significance of the discussion that unfolded not only in society, but also between the State Duma deputies around the content of the film", as well as the need to comment on her position for the media, but against the adoption of such an order the committee of the chamber on the regulations made a speech, which recognized it as inappropriate to the Duma norms.

Meanwhile, State Duma deputies Oksana Pushkina and Irina Rodnina on September 13 appealed to the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev with a request to check the unregistered religious association "Christian State - Holy Russia" in connection with threats to director Alexei Uchitel and the campaign against his film "Matilda ".