Abstract: The article is devoted to the preservation and popularization of folk song in Russia at the administrative level. Devyatov provides the results of analyzign the legal basis that regulates administrative support of these processes both at the federal and regional levels. He also describes conditions and means of development of folk song and examines practical aspects of their realization. The main method of the research is analysis of legislative acts and other official documents that regulate the issues arising in the process of preservation, distribution and popularization of amateur and folk arts. As a result of the research, the author describes both positive aspects of state activity in the sphere of folk culture and problems that restrain the processes of preservation and popularization of folk song in Russia at the governmental level. Based on the analysis of modern practice of Russian folk song, Devyatov describes difficulties and prospects for the development of folk song under modern economic and socio-cultural practices. 

Abstract: The article deals with features and problems of a folk song existence in modern domestic information space. A folk song transition, realized in recent decades, from everyday forms of existence to stage and information ones, determined the transformation of methods and conditions of its spread, including the ones based on innovations introduction. The article presents a general overview of the Russian media structure, the degree of impact and audience coverage by modern media. On the basis of such indicators as consistency, frequency, the volume of sounding the qualitative and quantitative side of presence of the Russian folk song in the information field of television, radio, printed editions, and the Internet is revealed. The main method of the study is the analysis of statistical information given in the branch reports of the "Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation", 2014-2017, the data of a number of sociological studies, the analysis of legislative acts relating to television and radio broadcasting, the analysis of the television and radio programs, printed publications, and Internet content. The author concludes that in modern Russian information a folk song space occupies a rather weak position, and the task of preserving and promoting folk songs as a cultural heritage requires the purposeful organization of the given process by means of modern mass media.