CULTURE AND STATEHOOD

Abstract

The article raise the question about models of cultural policy, about the relationship of this policy with the status of the state in the international arena; considers the special role of culture in strengthening Russian statehood. Russia has repeatedly demonstrated the fruitfulness of the state to care for culture. State investment in culture, education and science has always produced a qualitative leap in the development of the country, allowing for a short period of time to catch up and overtake other countries and survive in a competitive geopolitical struggle. The difficult political conditions of the present time dictate the need to return to traditional for our country state-centric model of governance and to state support for her culture.