The Council of Ministers approved the Republican activities plan for the Year of Culture which is to be held in 2016.
The plan includes 121 points on basic directions of state cultural policy in Belarus. The National Academy of Sciences is appointed responsible for the following activities:
• development of bases of state cultural policy;
• a complex study on the development of culture and the presentation of the results at international events;
• sociological research on the culture, literature and reading;
• widening the use of the Belarusian language.