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❌📺500 million UAH from the telemarathon will not be taken for the reconstruction of damaged media - Yurchyshyn
The parliamentary Budget Committee rejected an amendment to the draft state budget that would have redirected 500 million UAH from funding the telemarathon to support media outlets affected by Russian aggression.
Next year the budget allocates 1,6 billion hryvnias for production and broadcasting of programs for state needs and international broadcasting (including the telemarathon). That’s a lot, even for several channels with very professional journalists. And zero hryvnias—for supporting media suffering from Russian aggression.
I submitted an amendment to the budget to take 500 million hryvnias from the marathon and transfer them to outlets that work in frontline communities, were forced to relocate because of Russian aggression, suffered destruction, or were destroyed by the Russians. Unfortunately, the initiative was not supported.
— reported Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech
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