OREANDA-NEWS  The Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives has already supported more than 6 thousand projects totaling 21.5 billion rubles, said the general director of the fund Roman Karmanov.

"At the moment, 21 and a half billion rubles have already been distributed, this is 6319 projects. And most of these projects are somehow a young audience," he said, speaking at the IX St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum - the Forum of United Cultures.

Karmanov noted that projects are being implemented in all regions of the Russian Federation.