An official project to develop centres of cultural innovation in Russia has been thrown out by the Ministry of Culture’s Working Group for the Development of Cultural Centres, who have replaced the initiative with a project to develop regional cultural centres focussing on fostering patriotic and spiritual education of residents of small towns. Head of the working group, film director Nikolay Burlyaev, said that the initial idea behind the concept for the Cultural Innovation Initiative (CII) was “mistaken”, accusing officials of “yielding to rather strange people who want to create a kind of ‘culture of innovation’”. 

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