"Public television Russia" has spent all the money - BBC Russian

attempt to finance the Russian Public Television donations fell through

in the budget of the Russian Public Television is no more money, confirmed the Russian service Bi-bi-si CEO Anatoly Lysenko channel.

“To date, our budget has completely dried up. How are we going to continue to live, I do not know” – said Lysenko.

OTP was based on public money and began broadcasting in May of this year: it was reported that the budget allocated 1.5 billion rubles (about $ 46 million). The same amount to finance channel is budgeted for 2014 and 2015.

However, in May it was reported that 1.5 billion rubles – this is only 65-70% of the funds required for the operation of the Public Television. There have been suggestions that the allocated money will only last until September, and maybe the end of July.

“We have repeatedly said that the funds are not available. Dedicated money has been spent on the creation of the material-technical base of the channel library – said Lysenko Bi-bi-si. – Now we turn to the letters to various authorities and will continue to apply.”

When asked how long the channel will continue to broadcast without additional infusions, CEO could not say for sure. According to him, most likely, will be able to hold out until the beginning of September.

Initially it was assumed that, in addition to public funds, the channel will be funded by private donations, but the CEO admitted that the idea was a failure.

Two months

broadcast channel viewers donated to his development of only 50 thousand rubles: According to Lysenko, “someone sent 500 rubles, some 300″.

Tuesday, when it became known that the OTP financial difficulties, the press service of Rospechat announced that the head of the agency Seslavinsky also listed the channel private donation in the amount of 100 thousand rubles.

However, the question

RIA Novosti that will help Seslavinskaya Are the funds OTP Lysenko quoted the famous novel “12 chairs”: “A hundred thousand will not save the father of Russian democracy.’s the whole comment”.

According to the press service of the OTP, channel management expects the support of the state, as the idea of ??public funding fell through. In this case, it is clear that planned for the next year in the Russian budget amounts channel is also not enough.

“One and a half billion a year – that’s a really small amount of money for the federal channel” – added to the press service, referring to the budgets of other television channels, two to three times greater than the amount provided to the OTP funding in the state budget.