Former colleague of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the show "Kvartal 95" Olena Kravets received more than UAH 27 million from the state budget to create her own evening show "Tihyi Vechir" on the TV channel "Dim".
This became known from a tender on Prozorro.
According to the tender, the state enterprise Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine will allocate UAH 27,528 million to Sun Films for the creation of the talk show.
The tender was announced on January 20. It was planned that more than UAH 32 million would be allocated from the budget for this show.
However, on November 28, the contract was amended, as "the parties agreed to reduce the scope of the procurement and agreed to reduce the total contract price by UAH 5,328,000 (five million three hundred and twenty-eight thousand).00."
Thus, UAH 27,528,000 will be allocated for the development of the program.
The negative reaction of Ukrainians to the financing of the show from the state budget was not long in coming. On social media, they emphasize that the talk show costs almost as much as the construction of defense line fortifications in Zaporizhzhia region, for which UAH 31 million was allocated from the budget.
Background. In the summer, social media was stirred by the news that Yuriy Horbunov's company was planning to make a comedy series for UAH 33 million of budget funds.