STATE PATERNALISM IN THE SPHERE OF ARTS AND CULTURE: ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF PUBLIC FUNDING IN RUSSIA

Abstract

The analysis of changes in the dynamics of public funding of arts and culture in the Russian Federation over a 25-years period allows to conclude that the «residual principle» of the financial provision of the sector of culture in Russia has transformed into the principle of «low priority» of the public expenditure for culture. Within the above period there were three timeframes in the dynamics of public spending for the arts and culture: stage 1 (1991-2004) - the period of «return of missed opportunities», since only by 2004 it was possible to reach the 1991 level of public funding of culture; stage 2 (2004-2008) - the «golden five-year period» for the public financing of culture, the period of increasing public support of culture; stage 3 (2009-2015) - «funding of the achieved level» - a period of stagnation, when public expenditure on culture stopped to grow first in real and then in nominal terms.