In the near three-year period 2008-2011, Arts Council has received from the Government a very big bucks - 1.6 billion pounds, or roughly $ 3 billion. .... In Russia, talks about the need to create a similar, state-supported, but not necessarily managed by the government organization of cultural export has been going on long
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