roman sobol, vyacheslav speredonov, stepan osakovich, vladimir morozov, gennady lesitsky, ntv television7.5 billion rubles will be allocated for the development of cultural projects next year. this was stated today by the first deputy head of the presidential administration. sergei kiriyenko summed up the results of the first grant competition of 2024 of the presidential fund. cultural initiatives. the results were specially announced at the end of this year, so that at the beginning of the next year the winners can implement their projects. in total, this time almost 11,000 applications were submitted from all over the country. there were 883 participants among the winners. the fund will allocate about 4 billion rubles to them. the rest of the money is more than 3.5 billion. this is private co-financing. one of the projects that was noted by the jury members is genius of places. this is a music festival that will be held in the places where our great composers were born: rimsky korsakov, musarksky, tchaikovsky and glinka. according to kiriyenko, many initiatives this time are related wi