The lack of a long-term cultural policy that would set out the priorities seriously affects the activity of the institutions in the area of interpretative arts. At the same time, the low salaries of the culture employees caused the mass exodus of specialists in singing arts to other areas of activity or to other countries. The conclusions belong to the participants in the five roundtable meetings held as part of the pilot project “Future Visions: Cultural Policy of Moldova from Changes to Viability” that was launched by Soros Moldova Foundation in concert with the European Cultural Foundation, Info-Prim Neo reports. Artists from different areas, managers of institutions of culture from a number of zones of Moldova say that the law on theatres, concert and circus is not operating at present. Moreover, the lack of financial means and the centralised mechanism of financing the institutions of culture do not stimulate their activity and creativity. Also, there are no regulations that would stipulate the mechanism, priorities and principles of financing the institutions. Theatre critic Constantin Cheianu underlined that the Culture Ministry organised no dramaturgy contest on one of the society’s acute problems: drug abuse, migration, trafficking in people. They consider that the Culture Ministry should work out special projects to support the staging of performances on social issues, but should not interfere in the distribution of the creation group. On the other hand, says Cheianu, the theatres should seek money from different foreign organisations, which, as a rule, provide money for the elucidation of social problems. The meeting participants also spoke about the only source for financing the institutions of culture and cultural activities, which was and is the central and local budgets, to which the nongovernmental organisations and institutions do not have access. The system of financing the institutions of culture is not transparent and does not stimulate the creativity, the participants said, stressing the necessity of diversifying the sources of financing and urgently creating a Cultural Fund that will be administered by a Council elected by the artists. The fund will provide opportunities for developing the nongovernmental organisations and institutions. The institutional structure of the interpretative arts consists of a network of 11 dramatic theatres, three theatres for children and youth, the National Opera House, the National Philharmonics, the Organ Hall, the concert association “Moldova-Concert”, two symphonic orchestras, a joint orchestra, a chamber orchestra, the Academy of Music, Theatre and Plastic Arts, the Special Secondary Musical School, the Musical College, and a group of general musical education establishments.