Director General of National Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Ukraine Zurab Alasania has said that he has written a voluntary resignation application due to problems with the budget of the Eurovision 2017 song contest and similar hardships with the government financing of National Public Television. Alasania posted a mediaport.ua link to resignation letter and explanations of his decision on Facebook.
He said that authorities added the budget of the song contest to the budget of his company for 2017. This means that UAH 450 million of expenses for Eurovision is taken from UAH 1.2 billion foreseen in the law for development of Public Broadcasting. During the transition period the company has to be lead by a person more inclined to compromise, more flexible, able to deal and negotiate to satisfy conflicting interests and interested persons , he said.
