Employees of the museum-reserve ask the Ryazan City Council to decide whether the city needs a museum-reserve

On August 9, employees of the Ryazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve sent a letter to the Chairman of the Ryazan City Council, Semyon Sazonov, asking him to announce the position of the local government regarding the future fate of the museum.

After several requests from museum employees asking deputies to respond to the conflict situation that had developed around the Ryazan Kremlin, on July 19, the city council notified the museum-reserve in writing that it was ceasing correspondence with it, since detailed answers had already been given.

“By ‘detailed answers’ we mean references to various legislative acts, the content of which we know as well as you,” says the letter from the museum staff. “We asked the main local government body of Ryazan to decide on its position in the situation with the Ryazan Kremlin, namely: publicly to state whether the city needs or does not need the Ryazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve, for the preservation of which museum employees have been fighting for more than two years with the active support of the public and with the complete indifference and inactivity of the local authorities. In response to requests from museum employees, the Ministry of Culture undertakes to do so. in resolving this issue “take into account the current legal and factual situation.” And the situation is this: representatives of the public, ordinary citizens sign for the preservation of the museum, in July 2007 there were over 25 thousand of them, all of them can be found in the Kremlin - unlike mythical appeals. “thousands of believers calling for the return of a spiritual shrine,” while at the same time the city council, with tenacity worthy of better use, continues to remain silent.”

The museum staff again turned to the deputies with the question of whether the city needs a museum: “Even if it is not your level of competence to decide the fate of the Kremlin, to express your point of view on an issue that concerns over 25 thousand voters, the elected body is obliged to take its civic position.”

Sources

• Employees of the museum-reserve ask the main local government body of Ryazan to publicly answer the question: “Does the city need the Ryazan Kremlin or not?” // News Agency "7 News". 2007. August 9.