UNCLASSIFIED language of the Russian Federation, a means of ensuring the country’s state integrity and interethnic communication among the Russian Federation’s peoples, the basis of the development of integration processes in the post-Soviet area, and a means of meeting the language and cultural requirements of compatriots abroad. Russia is implementing programs to support the study of the Russian language and culture in the CIS member states so as to accelerate the processes of Eurasian integration. 82. The strengthening of national security in the sphere of culture is aided by: -- recognition of the paramount role of culture in preserving and augmenting traditional Russian spiritual-moral and cultural values and strengthening the unity of the Russian Federation’s multinational people; -- ensuring of the Russian Federation’s cultural sovereignty by means of taking measures to protect Russian society against external expansion of ideologies and values and destructive information and psychological impacts, the implementation of control in the information sphere, and prevention of the spread of extremist products, propaganda of violence, and racial, religious, and interethnic intolerance; -- the creation of a system of spiritual-moral and patriotic education of citizens, the introduction of the principles of spiritual and moral development into the education system and the youth and nationalities policy, and the widening of cultural educational activity; -- the improvement of the material-technical base of cultural organizations and the creation of conditions to organize the leisure and encourage the creative development and the artistic education of citizens; -- the development of internal cultural-cognitive tourism; -- the formation of a state order to create cinematographic and printed output, television and radio programs, and Internet resources; -- the strengthening of state control over the condition of cultural heritage facilities (monuments of history and culture) and the enhancement of responsibility for violating the demands of their preservation, utilization, and state protection; -- the improvement of the system of training specialists in the sphere of history and culture, as well as their social protection; -- the development of a common humanitarian and information-telecommunications medium on the territories of the CIS member states and in contiguous regions; -- the utilization of Russia’s cultural potential in the interests of multilateral international cooperation. Ecology of Living Systems and Rational Use of Natural Resources UNCLASSIFIED