Films and TV series featuring security officials taking bribes will no longer receive government funding.
How to clarify According to Kommersant's sources, this applies to any scenarios in which representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the Investigative Committee, and the Prosecutor's Office take bribes and participate in criminal schemes. This position has already been communicated to the Association of Film and Television Producers, which represents 46 of Russia's largest television companies.
"Providing a negative image of the security forces undermines trust in state institutions," one producer explained the rationale behind the ban. "At some point, a huge amount of content about the 1990s began appearing on screens, portraying the security forces in an unfavorable light."
The Ministry of Culture and the Institute for Internet Development, cited as the authors of this initiative, did not respond to the publication's questions. Meanwhile, the Institute for Internet Development has long since announced a list of "stop topics": for example, the organization stopped funding series about maniacs because they "exploit" "viewer interest in forbidden content, psychological flaws, and perversions."
Based on the results of last year, the state issued almost 40 billion.