Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković he was in Russia to participate in the "Intermuseum" festival and to present the Director of the Hermitage with the Order of the Serbian Flag, 1st Class.
There is more information about Selaković's stay in Russia in the media than on the Ministry's website.
Cooperation at the Archaeological Museum
The most interesting news from that Selaković road was published by Tanjug, and two or three pro-regime media reported: that in the realization The Archaeological Museum, which is preparing for the Expo The Hermitage also participated.
There is no such information on the website of the Ministry of Culture, and it is not publicly known either.
One of the two published news about the minister's visit to Russia is about the awarding of the Order to Mihail Borisovich Piotrovsky, the director of the Hermitage, but only Selakovic's speech was quoted in it, not Piotrovsky's statement.
Thanks to the Order of Pietrovski, among other things, it is revealed that he and Selaković also discussed, as reported by Sputnik, the formation of a "joint museum of ancient history", pointing out that 17 Roman emperors were born on the territory of present-day Serbia, among them Constantine and Justinian.
"We will cooperate in the formation of that museum since we have great experience, we have ancient halls and we will be happy to deal with that project and archaeology, and we also discussed other projects," Piotrovski said according to Sputnik.
Six museums for the Expo
Minister Selaković did mention the Archaeological Museum, but in a different context.
In Moscow, at the plenary session of the international festival "Intermuzej", which was held as part of the sixth Russian-Serbian cultural forum, Selaković used the opportunity to advertise the Expo, and on that occasion he emphasized that Belgrade is getting six new museums for this purpose.
He listed the Archaeological Museum, the Museum of the City of Belgrade, the Museum of Natural History, the Nikola Tesla Museum, the History Museum of Serbia and the Aviation Museum, adding that a new permanent exhibition is being prepared in the Ethnographic Museum, and said that "it has never happened before, that in a very short period of time one country in our part of Europe and the world gets so many new museums".
Mentioning the Archaeological Museum, Selaković, like Piotrovski, pointed out that Roman emperors were born on the territory of present-day Serbia, and specified that the museum will be part of the National Museum, but - he did not mention the Hermitage.
What is not written on the website?
On the website of the Ministry of Culture, Selaković's participation in the said plenum was not recorded.
It does not say why he went to Russia, and the media defines his stay as an official visit to the Russian Federation, how long he stayed (based on the published texts of other media, it can be seen that he was there last week), nor that he visited Mosfilm. Apart from handing over the Order, the website only records that he opened the exhibition "Serbian Medieval Monuments in Danger" at the Moscow State Museum of Architecture.
Serbian delegation
As far as it is possible to see from the media, producers Maksa Ćatović and Aljoša Ćeranić, director of the National Museum of Serbia Bojana Brešković, director of the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade Marko Krstić, acting director of the National Theater in Belgrade Dragoljub Bajić and director of the ensemble Kolo dr. Zdravko Ranisavljević - all had presentations at the plenary session of the Russian-Serbian Cultural Forum.
By the way, the Order of the Serbian Flag of the First Order, with which President Vučić awarded the director of the Hermitage, Mihail Borisovich Piotrovski, is the highest recognition of the Republic of Serbia, and only the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, received it before him.
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