The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the Regulation on the Unified Electronic Ticket, a unified state system for electronic accounting of tickets sold by cinemas. The government’s representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, announced this on Telegram, Komersant ukrainskyi
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“The regulation defines the general principles of the functioning of the unified state system of electronic accounting of tickets sold by cinemas – the Single Electronic Ticket – to create the possibility of a complete transition to the sale of tickets by cinemas throughout Ukraine through a single electronic system, as well as obtaining real information on the number of tickets sold for all screenings, in particular, for screenings of national films,” Melnychuk said.
He reminded that the creation of such a system is envisaged by the Law on State Support of Cinematography in Ukraine.
It is worth noting that the draft state budget of Ukraine for 2025 envisages a significant reduction in funding for the State Film Agency, reducing it by 69.2% compared to the previous year.
According to the draft law No. 12000, which was registered on the parliament’s website on 14 September 2024, UAH 204.1 million is proposed to be allocated for the State Film Agency in 2025. Of this amount, UAH 30.4 million is earmarked to finance activities related to the management and administration of the film industry. The remaining 173.7 million hryvnias will be allocated for state support for cinematography, including important projects to document war crimes.
For comparison, in 2024, the Ukrainian State Film Agency received three times the amount – UAH 663.4 million. Of this amount, UAH 28.7 million was spent on management and governance in the cinematographic sector, and the bulk of the budget – UAH 634.7 million – was allocated to support cinematography, including the documentation of war crimes.
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Thus, the budget for documenting war crimes has been cut even more than the entire film industry – by almost 4 times.