Minister of Culture: Financing Kazakhstan?s cultural sphere not changed

ASTANA. April 15. KAZINFORM /Kurmat Samarkhan/ Financing cultural sphere in Kazakhstan has not undergone significant changes. Minister of Culture and Information Mukhtar Kul-Mukhammed has said it at a session of the Ministry?s board on realization of the President?s annual Address to the Nation.
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?The country provides all necessary conditions for cultural-information space development. Our sphere has not undergone significant changes while specification or optimization of national budget. Therefore, realization of all plans of the Ministry is possible in the current year?, M. Kul-Mukhammed noted. ?Amid the crisis we should preserve our cultural department and working places. Our main challenge is to prevent transformation of the current social crisis into the cultural one?, the Minister highlighted. In spite of the global crisis, the salary of the employees of the cultural sphere has risen by 25% in the current year. Besides, salaries of the actors of the national theatres have been increased twofold due to granting the theatres the academic status. ?In one word, we have not cut the salaries of the employees of cultural departments, mass media and archives?, the Minister noted.
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