The head of the HRC asked Medvedev to financially support public television - Moscow Times

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Head of the Presidential Council on Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov to the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev a letter asking for financial assistance to public television. The facsimile of the letter published on the website HRC. “The development of public television is one of the key factors of Russian civil society and modernization of the public conscience” – the document says. Noting that the first day of Medvedev supported the project OTR, Fedotov asks “urgent to find a way to provide additional state support” channel.

Tuesday OTP CEO Anatoly Lysenko said that the budget of the channel is completely depleted. “How are we going to continue to live, I do not know,” – he said. Lysenko added: “The Legend of the fact that the channel can exist on donations, did not pay off.” He stressed that the administration OTP knew it from the start.

day before the head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications Mikhail Seslavinskiy OTP translated from personal funds 100,000 rubles. This is almost double the amount of donations collected by the project since April 2013: For three months the channel received from viewers only 50,600 rubles. Seslavinskiy said that his step is trying to set an example to other citizens interested in the development of public television. In addition, the official added, so he wants to make amends to the TV channel “in the lack of effective lobbying for the allocation of funds for the OTP from the federal budget”.

OTP began broadcasting on May 19. At the start of the project the government allocated 1.5 billion rubles. In the future financing channel was supposed to lead viewers through donations.

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