Rosokhrankultura
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Rosokhrankultura full name: Federal Service for monitoring compliance with cultural heritage protection law , is a state agency of Russia
responsible for keeping the national register of cultural heritage
, enforcing preservation of listed properties through monitoring compliance with preservation law and enforcing compliance with copyright
law, including licensing of copyright management agencies.
As at May, 2009, the agency is subordinated to the federal Ministry of Culture. For a brief period in 2008 Rosokhrankultura was merged into the Russian Federal Surveillance Service for Mass Communications, Communications
but was eventually reorganized back into an independent agency. It is chaired, since June 2008, by Alexander Kibovsky (born 1973), historian of Imperial Russian Army
and a lecturer on military costume at the Moscow Art Theatre
college.
In September 2008 Rosokhrankultura performed a survey of damages of the 2008 South Ossetia War
in South Ossetia
.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
responsible for keeping the national register of cultural heritage
Russian cultural heritage register
The national cultural heritage register of Russia is a data bank of historically or culturally significant man-made immovable properties – landmark buildings, industrial facilities, memorial homes of notable people of the past, monuments, cemeteries and tombs, archaeological sites, and cultural...
, enforcing preservation of listed properties through monitoring compliance with preservation law and enforcing compliance with copyright
Copyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
law, including licensing of copyright management agencies.
As at May, 2009, the agency is subordinated to the federal Ministry of Culture. For a brief period in 2008 Rosokhrankultura was merged into the Russian Federal Surveillance Service for Mass Communications, Communications
Rossvyazokhrankultura
Rossvyazokhrankultura was the short name for the Russian Federal Surveillance Service for Mass Communications, Communications and Cultural Heritage Protection , a state governing service entrusted with monitoring compliance in two unrelated areas - communications and mass media and preservation of...
but was eventually reorganized back into an independent agency. It is chaired, since June 2008, by Alexander Kibovsky (born 1973), historian of Imperial Russian Army
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...
and a lecturer on military costume at the Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1898. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...
college.
In September 2008 Rosokhrankultura performed a survey of damages of the 2008 South Ossetia War
2008 South Ossetia war
The 2008 South Ossetia War or Russo-Georgian War was an armed conflict in August 2008 between Georgia on one side, and Russia and separatist governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other....
in South Ossetia
South Ossetia
South Ossetia or Tskhinvali Region is a disputed region and partly recognized state in the South Caucasus, located in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic....
.