LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

of January 3, 2024 No. 2033

About culture

Accepted by the Resolution MH MOPT of December 6, 2023, No. 1169

Approved by the Resolution MM MORT of December 27, 2023, No. 455

This Law regulates legal, organizational, social, economic basis and the basic principles of state policy in the field of culture.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) culture - set of the material and cultural wealth aimed at the spiritual development, satisfaction of esthetic taste and feelings of person and forming of the personality;

2) creative activities - the type of cultural activities directed to creation, forming, recovery, promotion and promoting of cultural values;

3) activities in the field of culture - the activities of physical persons and legal entities directed to creation, forming, protection, revival and realization of cultural values;

4) objects of historical and cultural heritage - the historical objects or objects of material and spiritual culture having historical, both scientific value and universal, national or local value;

5) historical and cultural values - the cultural wealth and physical items of national, historical, archaeological, scientific, educational, art, spiritual, moral and cultural value which are national and universal property;

6) national cultural values - the cultural values of historical and cultural value included in the Unified state register of objects of historical and cultural heritage;

7) authorized state body in the field of culture - the central executive body of the government realizing state policy in the field of culture and controlling cultural process in organizations of area of culture irrespective of form of business;

8) the creative unions - the public associations of professional creative specialists of one or several cultural directions created on member and voluntary basis according to the procedure, established by the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan;

9) historical and cultural heritage - set of the cultural values having national, historical, cultural, art, scientific, educational, spiritual and moral value, being universal property;

10) national cultural heritage - set of the cultural values having special degree of national value from the historical and cultural point of view;

11) non-material cultural heritage - national traditions, celebrations and ceremonies, content and essence of literature and means of their oral expression (language, folklore, customs, knowledge and skills) connected with the objects and national art crafts and the phenomena connected with the nature;

12) educational institutions in the field of culture - the educational institutions irrespective of form of business performing according to the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan training process and education and realizing training programs in the field of culture;

13) research establishments of area of culture - the organizations conducting research and scientific and methodical works on development of different areas of culture;

14) concert organizations - the organizations responsible for the organization and holding concerts, musical promotion, esthetic education and other cultural and public actions;

15) archive - the organization or structural division of state bodies, the company and the organization performing collection, accounting, storage and use of archive documents;

16) mass media - periodicals, news agencies, television and radio, and also the newsreels, the records, audio and audiovisual programs aired or distributed on cable according to the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan;

17) library - the information, cultural and educational institution having organized fund of literature, documents and other spiritual materials which presents them to users in temporary use and also renders other library services;

18) cinema - the area of culture and art including complex of the professional, creative, productive, scientific, technical, educational and information activities directed to creation and use of movies;

19) publishing house - the organization publishing printed materials, including bearing responsibility for organizational, language, financial, technical, technologically aspects and other providing its publication;

20) the museum - the non-commercial cultural institution created for the purpose of acquisition, registration, classification, restoration, preserving, research and public display of historical and cultural objects and collections;

21) circus - the organization which is engaged in performing, production art, demonstration of unique human talent, beauty of body, symbol of courage and courage;

22) theater - organization which main activities is creation and public display in live execution of theatrical performances, other representations;

23) TV and radio broadcasting - the organization broadcasting programs and news with use of cable, wire, satellite, multichannel, digital, computer, including international and other networks;

24) the worker of area of culture - the citizen who makes contribution to creation forming, realization, protection and development of cultural values in organization or the state structural division and works in this area;

25) the professional creative specialist - physical person which professional activity is directed to creation and forming of art values, reproduction or interpretation of works of art and works of art;

26) national art crafts - one of forms of folk art, the activities for creation of art products of utilitarian and (or) decorative appointment performed on the basis of individual and collective development of successive development of traditions of folk art in certain area in the course of creative manual and (or) mechanical work of masters of national art crafts;

27) cultural and mass exhibition actions - the events held in honor of the celebration of holidays of celebrations, historical dates, cultural days, festivals, exhibitions, tenders and perpetuating of memory of the famous political, state, cultural, scientific and public figures at the local, regional, national and international levels.

Article 2. Legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan on culture

The legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan on culture is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan and consists of this Law, other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Tajikistan, and also the international and legal acts recognized by Tajikistan.

Article 3. Coverage of this Law

This Law regulates the following activities in the field of culture:

1) identification, protection, restoration and use of historical and cultural monuments;

2) fiction, cinematography, scenic, choreographic, musical, fine arts, photoart and other types and models (genres) of art;

3) art national crafts and professions, examples of national culture, languages, dialects, folklore (folklore), traditions and ceremonies name of historical areas;

4) amateur art creativity;

5) work of the museum, collection and classification of historical and cultural monuments;

6) the book publishing, library activities and other activities in the field of culture connected with creation and promoting of the book and its use and also activities of archive organizations;

7) television, radio and other broadcast media of materials about creation and development of cultural heritage;

8) esthetic education, art information, pedagogical activities in this sphere;

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