The year of culture in Russia - analytical epilogue: lost time, effort and risks

This article analyzes the problems associated with the completion of Russia's Year of Culture. The author considers the results of the Year of Culture in terms of the things completed, missed, and those that are possible in the future and links them with the risks of social and cultural development. This article attempts to identify the causes of some of the omissions in the cultural process. It will focus on the assurance of social, economic, political and spiritual development of society in which culture plays a key role by ensuring the readiness of people to create social practice, actively shaping their world outlook, attitudes, opinions and being. The author points out the shortcomings of the gross results of the cultural approach to work, focusing on the “painful aspects” of modern Russia. The problems that are highlighted include social and cultural unity, ethno-cultural cohesion, personal patriotic orientation, national and civilizational identity. In this context, the article draws attention to the lack of cultural deployment of recommendations, designs, and documents of the Government, the Ministry of Culture. The article analyzes the cultural situation of intercultural interaction with the peoples of Russia. In this regard, the question is raised about the culture of language, the constitutional position of the relation between cultural-national autonomy and a common cultural space. A significant part of the article deals with issues of cultural media in ‘perfect' Russia. Furthermore, it analyses the existing contradiction between the state position and that of the media, as expressed in the TV/radio products of recent times. It calls for the need for increased media programs aimed at forming respect for their history and national heroes at different times of the development of the Fatherland, alongside promotion of traditions, especially those linked to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.