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-- the wide introduction of public-private partnership instruments in the sphere of protecting
citizens’ health;
-- the enhanced competitiveness of Russian health care on the world market.
Culture
76. The strategic aims of ensuring national security in the sphere of culture are:
-- the preservation and augmentation of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values as the
foundation of Russian society, and the education of children and young people in a civic spirit;
-- the preservation and development of the common Russian identity of the Russian Federation’s
peoples and of the country’s unified cultural area;
-- the enhancement of Russia’s role in the world humanitarian and cultural area.
77. The foundation of the common Russian identity of the Russian Federation’s peoples is the
historically evolved system of unified spiritual-moral and cultural-historical values, as well as
the distinctive cultures of the Russian Federation’s multinational people as an inalienable part of
Russian culture.
78. Traditional Russian spiritual and moral values include the priority of the spiritual over the
material, protection of human life and of human rights and freedoms, the family, creative labor,
service to the homeland, the norms of morals and morality, humanism, charity, fairness, mutual
assistance, collectivism, the historical unity of the peoples of Russia, and the continuity of our
motherland’s history.
79. Threats to national security in the sphere of culture are the erosion of traditional Russian
spiritual and moral values and the weakening of the unity of the Russian Federation’s
multinational people by means of external cultural and information expansion (including the
spread of poor-quality mass cultural products), propaganda of permissiveness and violence, and
racial, ethnic, and religious intolerance, as well as the decline in the role of the Russian language
in the world and in the quality of its teaching in Russia and abroad, attempts to falsify Russian
and world history, and unlawful encroachments upon cultural objects.
80. To achieve the strategic aims of ensuring national security in the sphere of culture, the state
cultural policy and the state nationalities policy are being implemented and are aimed at
strengthening and augmenting traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, ensuring ethnic,
religious, and racial tolerance, fostering mutual respect among the Russian Federation’s peoples,
and also developing interethnic and interregional cultural ties. Coordination of the activity of
interested federal organs of executive power and the Russian Academy of Sciences in
implementing the state cultural policy is being stepped up.
81. Special significance for strengthening national security in the sphere of culture attaches to the
implementation of state policy on realizing the function of the Russian language as the state
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