Rosokhrankultura (russian: Росохранкультура), full name: Federal Service for monitoring compliance with cultural heritage protection law (russian: Федеральная служба по надзору в сфере массовых коммуникаций, связи и охраны культурного наследия), is a state agency of

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responsible for keeping the national register of cultural heritage, enforcing preservation of listed properties through monitoring compliance with preservation law and enforcing compliance with

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law, including licensing of copyright management agencies. As at May, 2009, the agency is subordinated to the federal Ministry of Culture. For a brief period in 2008 Rosokhrankultura was merged into the Russian Federal Surveillance Service for Mass Communications, Communications but was eventually reorganized back into an independent agency. It is chaired, since June 2008, by Alexander Kibovsky (born 1973), historian of

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and a lecturer on military costume at the

Moscow Art Theatre The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was f ...

college. In September 2008 Rosokhrankultura performed a survey of damages of the

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in South Ossetia.

External links

Federal Service for monitoring compliance with cultural heritage protection law

References

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