The main museums will remain under the protection of the police

The Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev said that the police would continue to protect the largest museums in Russia, among which he called the State Hermitage, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

Kolokoltsev made this statement on Thursday, September 17, at a meeting with the editors of the media, Interfax reports.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also said that the Ministry of Culture was proposed to create an interdepartmental working group to form a list of cultural objects, the security of which will be ensured by police posts, based on the existing staff of non -departmental security units.

In July, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a reduction in the state of the Ministry of Internal Affairs by 10%. From November 1, only 262 posts will continue to work from 3500 stationary posts of the Main Directorate of Neuded Assembly of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at critical objects.

The museum community made a harsh criticism of this decision, noting that it jeopar of the safety of exhibits. At the end of August, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, noting the increased level of vandalism in the country, said : "The state moves away from one of its main duties, which is the protection of a cultural property."