Unified Register of Creative Industries

2023: Creating a Registry

At the end of October 2023, it became known about the work on the creation of a single register of creative industries in Russia. The initiative is designed to streamline the work of the sphere and provide support measures.

The government will establish the procedure for the formation and maintenance of the register, including the composition of information included in it about the subjects of creative industries, and will also determine the authorized executive body, which will be responsible for the development and implementation of state policy in this area, according to the bill "On the development of creative (creative) industries in the Russian Federation." The document was submitted to the State Duma by a group of senators and deputies headed by the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy Denis Kravchenko (United Russia).

A unified register of creative industries will be created in Russia

According to Kravchenko, the register will be kept by the Ministry of Economic Development, the same department will receive powers to work with creative industries. The ministry "it's time to concentrate on innovative directions for the Russian economy," the deputy said. According to him, by October 2023, certain powers are scattered between different departments, as a result there is no person responsible for the task. In the regions, issues that can be attributed to the sphere of regulation of the projected law are supervised by different departments, complains Kravchenko:

Somewhere the Ministry of Culture, somewhere the Ministry of Economics, somewhere the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Industry, etc. Our task is to systematize this, "he added.[1]

In July 2023, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree that expanded the list of professions and positions that belong to creative ones to 236. The list includes such professions as television administrator, artist, buffoon clown, trainers, ballet dancer, circus orchestra musicians, choir artists, vocalist, fashion designer. In addition to them, the list includes assistants to the sound engineer, conductor, cameraman and other professions. The decision will also affect producers, editors, cameramen, correspondents and other creative figures.

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