MOSCOW, June 29. /Itar-Tass BARINOVA /.
The Ministry of Culture of Russia denies reports of several media that during the visit of Minister Vladimir Medina at the Russian Institute of Art History /RIII /St. Petersburg was beaten by members of the Institute. Itar-Tass reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Culture.
"A ministry refuted some media reports that during the visit of RIII in the incident with the beating of the Institute employees, - the press-service. - At a meeting with the leaders of Medina and RIII team of journalists were present all the time and nothing like this has happened. In the case of the spread of false information, the Ministry intends to go to court. "
What happened?
The conflict took place on Friday in the building RIII on St. Isaac's Square, where he arrived the minister in connection with the establishment of a passing test after a change in leadership research institution that was perceived ambiguously in the collective. The office of the director had a dispute between an employee of the Ministry of Culture Andrei Karpov and graduate student Olga Eseev RIII, who did not want to leave.
According to Itar-Tass, located at that time in the waiting room director, a representative of the Ministry of Culture did not beat officer RIII. Closing the door after the request to leave the premises, Karpov accidentally slightly pinched Eseev, but immediately apologized.
Nevertheless graduate turned to the emergency room, where he was locked soft tissue contusion. According to the instructions, medical institution shall send a telephone message to the police station. In the Research Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region receive telephone messages have not confirmed.
Russian Institute of Art History /Zubovsky Institute /was founded in 1912 by Count Valentin Zubov, who led them up to his death in 1925. The Institute has always doing research on the history and modern development of the art world.
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is very similar to the struggle for a mansion in the historic center of St. Petersburg.
From the conversation leading Kostitsin with guests Natalia release Kumukovoy Jamila and Andrew Kirillov:
N. Kostitsin: Yet I can not but ask - some times you talked about the loft. There, they say, a luxury loft you? (Laughs.)
A. Kirillov: You were in the attic?
D. KUMUKOVA: I was, I was.
N. Kostitsin: Since the loft immediately come to visit are high.
D. KUMUKOVA: Yes, and a stunning view from there on St. Isaac's Square, yes.
A. Kirillov: At St. Isaac's Cathedral.
D. KUMUKOVA: Yes, indeed, a luxury loft, right? There ...
A. Kirillov: We have a basement and there, and there are some unexplored space. The money we need, we have mastered them, we will master them to their destination.
N. Kostitsin: Listen, well, that's the St. Petersburg intelligentsia supported.
D. KUMUKOVA: Yes.
N. Kostitsin: Here's a meeting at which was the official ...
A. Kirillov: And colleagues from different institutions.
N. Kostitsin ... from the ministry, there were there were employees and, as far as I know, Pushkin House ...
A. Kirillov: They were. European University.
D. KUMUKOVA: And the European University Institute of Theatre, University of ...
A. Kirillov: Yeah, well, everything ...
N. Kostitsin: Writers, actors, to my knowledge.
D. KUMUKOVA: Yes.
A. Kirillov: That's really what is called in the same boat. Everyone understands that today we, and tomorrow they will, so ...
N. Kostitsin: Tell me, well, somehow lately so, rocked by scandals city of St. Petersburg. The history and the Hermitage collection, while also, in general, the point is not set, but, as they say, that for now, behold, two meetings, one might say, two-zero. Next institution itself, Russian, Zubovsky your institution, but the story began with him in general, before. Oh, by the way, that's for twenty years, even according to Tatyana Klyavin, some of these attempts were, right?
A. Kirillov Four.
N. Kostitsin Four attempts, right?
A. Kirillov: Yes. And the director ... And in the beginning, when we again from Moss otedinyalis - we were at one time research department Moss ...
D. KUMUKOVA: Theatre Institute.
A. Kirillov: Theatre Institute. We then tried his ministry director-"Varyag" to plant, and then just stood Institute as one. Six hours of this struggle continued, discussion, here, and we have defended, that was a specialist, the specialist.
D. KUMUKOVA: While ...
A. Kirillov: The point is not that the, but the fact that the specialist, because when we are fighting, or rather, shall we say, are defending their director, we do not advocate a particular director, and not just a particular institution we defend, we defend his life's work, we are defending our industry, what we have devoted their lives and the fact that, in our view, society today arhineobhodimo.
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A. Kirillov: 2014 was declared the Year of Culture of the Russian Federation. It would be nice to this culture of anything left by then.
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N. Kostitsin: I recall that we were in the studio today Jamila Kumukova, art critic, Senior Fellow, the theater sector, the chairman of the trade union committee of the Institute, Andrey Kirillov, a senior research fellow of the sector, an art critic. Russian Institute of History of Art was at the center of our attention, his fate. Thank you, hold on, and good luck!