Information technologies in the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
2025: Putin's order to transfer the book industry from Ministry of Digital Development to the Ministry of Culture
President Vladimir Putin proposed to discuss the issue of transferring the book industry from the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Culture. This was discussed in March 2025 at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Culture and the Arts. The proposal was made by a member of the Council, executive secretary of the Writers' Union Nikolai Ivanov. Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova noted that "literature is part of culture, and according to the logic of all processes and actions, the Ministry of Culture should have," recalling that during the reorganization of Rospechat, this part went under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Digital Development. Read more here
2024: Ex-curator of digitalization of the Ministry of Culture received 7 years in prison for fraud with "Pushkin maps"
In November 2024, the Moscow City Court refused to cancel the verdict of ex-Deputy Minister of Culture Olga Yarilova, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of office. Read more here
2022: 700GB hacker attack and data breach
In mid-April 2022, it became known about a data leak from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. We are talking about an archive of 700 GB, which included 230 thousand emails from the Ministry of Culture, as well as 230 thousand letters from 2019 to 2022 from the administration of the city of Blagoveshchensk and 130 thousand letters dated 2016-2022 from the apparatus of the governor of the Tver region.
According to Kommersant, the postal base of the Ministry of Culture and regional authorities appeared on the non-profit website Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). The source of the publication on the cybersecurity market confirmed that the posted files contain postal correspondence from Russian departments.
The correspondent of the publication was convinced that one of the archives contains letters from the Ministry of Culture, which contain data on salaries, layoffs, discussion of defects in cultural heritage sites and internal correspondence of employees of Rosgosexpertiza, controlled by the ministry. The leak was the result of an attack by the hacker group Anonymous, writes the Cybernews portal.
The Ministry of Culture told the publication that it had indeed identified a hacker attack on email. By mid-April 2022, work is underway to eliminate the consequences of hacking and strengthen the protection of the department's information databases.
Cybersecurity experts interviewed by Kommersant believe that hackers could have exploited vulnerabilities in the mail server. Hacking as a result of exploitation of the vulnerability speaks of neglect of the policy of eliminating vulnerabilities in government agencies, said one of the sources of the publication.
The letters could contain information about budgets, projects, conditions for the provision of services, tenders and tenders, suggests Ilya Tikhonov, head of compliance and audit at Softline UIB. In his opinion, most likely, there is no information in the correspondence that damages the state.[1]
2021
Creation of the institution "Digital Culture"
Under the Ministry of Culture, a federal state institution "Digital Culture" was created, designed to implement measures to increase the availability of cultural organizations for young people. The corresponding order of the Government of the Russian Federation, signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, was published on August 31, 2021 on the official portal of legal information. Read more here.
Change of Deputy Minister - Curator of Digital Development
Since January 2021, Olga Yarilova has again become the curator of the information and digital development of the Ministry of Culture. About this TAdviser told Maxim Ksenzov, who left the post of deputy minister due to the reduction of his position (the number of deputy ministers was reduced from six to four). Read more here.
2020: Massive digital transformation
At the end of May 2020, it became known about the beginning of a large-scale digital transformation in the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. In particular, the department is conducting a study of the digital skills of museum workers.
The new stage information technology of development in the cultural industry is reported TASS with reference to the Deputy Minister of Culture, Maxim Ksenzov who, among other things, oversees the activities of the Department of Information and Digital Development (with the exception of the Department of Libraries).
According to him, due to the pandemic, a new incentive has appeared for the digital direction in the field of culture and arts to begin to develop with even greater force.
 | Obviously, we are not talking about replacing offline events, because nothing will replace the effect of being present in museums, theaters, and so on, "the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation emphasized. |  |
On May 26, the deputy head of the Ministry of Culture of Russia Olga Yarilova announced that the plan of the national project "Culture" for the digitalization of the industry in 2020 would be exceeded several times.
"Digital Culture" is one of the main federal programs of the national project "Culture." It also includes the projects "Cultural Environment" and "Creative People," 113.5 billion rubles were allocated for its implementation.
Maxim Ksenzov also noted the implementation of projects by PRO.Культура.РФ (AIS EIPSK, a free digital platform for cultural institutions and organizers of cultural events is developing) and Культура.РФ, a portal whose attendance rates significantly increased during the period of self-isolation and the closure of institutions for visitors amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Before this crisis, the portal had up to 400 thousand visits per day.
By the end of May 2020, federal cultural institutions are closed to the public due to the coronavirus. The Ministry of Culture supports them in the implementation of their new digital projects, the development of which is pushed by the current situation with the need for self-isolation due to the pandemic.[2]
2019
Data Infrastructure
Ticket Sales Accounting System
Open data
Common information space in the field of culture
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