FILE picture: A popular view suggests the Pioner (Pioneer) cinema in Moscow, Russia January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - About a hundred and forty cinemas in Russia will fail to see scheduled modernisations after the government moved essentially 1.2 billion roubles (13.39 million pounds) earmarked for subculture spending this year to its reserve fund as it tackles COVID-19.
The coronavirus outbreak has compelled the government to adjust spending desires in 13 key areas, universal as the country wide initiatives, first announced by using President Vladimir Putin all through his bid for re-election in 2018. The projects are meant to spur financial growth.
"dollars amounting to 1.17 billion roubles from the 'subculture' country wide mission for 2020 were transferred to the (govt's) reserve fund," the TASS information company quoted Deputy tradition Minister Olga Yarilova as saying on Wednesday.
She spoke of 200 cinemas had been to have been modernised this yr but handiest 60 of the development plans would go forward under the scheme, and plans to digitise materials from the state film fund would even be affected.
The plan had been by using 2024 to equip 1,200 cinemas with knowledgeable equipment in settlements with as much as 500,000 inhabitants.
Artem Ryzhkov, programme director of a brief movie competition in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, described the movement as very unhappy, asserting a contemporary cinema can radically change a metropolis.
"it is a pretty good programme," he noted. "I actually hope this is brief and that subsequent year everything will come returned."
under the usual spending plan, Russia had intended to spend 113.5 billion roubles on way of life between 2019 and 2024.
The government's reserve fund is break away its country wide Wealth Fund and is used for emergency spending needs.
Reporting with the aid of Alexander Marrow, modifying by Katya Golubkova and Timothy Heritage
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