Since April 23 when the adviser to the President for culture V. Tolstoy transferred to the President the Project «Fundamentals of the state cultural policy of the Russian Federation)), in Russia there is a discussion of this document which contents reflects not so much present practice of management by the culture sphere, how many those purposes, tasks and the basic principles which have to become a basis of legislative providing policy concerning culture in the future. The analysis of this document is presented in article.