“Recently, the industry has begun to demand a reboot of the company, bringing it to a whole new level. The board of directors, having gathered a few days ago, decided to apply to the Federal Property Management Agency with a proposal to change the leadership, ”Medinsky said.

He also thanked Mtsiturizde for the work she had done in recent years.

Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin instructed the government to increase since 2020 the amount of subsidies to support cinematography for the production, rental and screening of debut national feature films, documentaries and animated films.

At the end of October, the Accounts Chamber of Russia announced that it had discovered flaws in the system of state support for Russian cinema.